Top 100 Takes One Quotes
#1. It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.
Devendra Banhart
#2. Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.
Narendra Modi
#3. When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson
#5. My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.
John Zakour
#6. You're a superCILIOUS cock SUCKER. You know that."
"IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.
Giorge Leedy
#7. Sometimes it takes one instance to have something snap in your mind - rearrange your head - and make you realize what has always been there.
E.L. Todd
#8. Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.
Sharon Gannon
#9. Dave's gently probing finger takes one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Cameron Vale
#10. Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
Peter Kreeft
#11. I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.
Christian Boltanski
#12. I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game.
Siobhan Davis
#13. It just takes one person, believing in you. It just takes one person, loving on you. That's all it takes to change the world
Emily T. Wierenga
#14. It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
Byron Katie
#15. While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.
Chris Avellone
#16. I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.
Tony Fadell
#17. I will keep fighting for you," Ash said in a low, intense voice. "Do what you must. I'll be here, whatever you decide. If it takes one year or a thousand, I will keep you safe.
Julie Kagawa
#18. Just one person. It really honestly just takes one positive person. One positive person can help you. And that can go a long, long way. - Alexis
Robert Uttaro
#19. There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
#20. only takes one weirdo to spot you inside and decide to go and get you.
Caroline Kepnes
#21. It only takes one person to recognize the beautiful quality in another, buried beneath the burden of life, and soon it rises to the surface and becomes recognizable to the soul it belongs to.
Tara Dupuis
#23. ~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...
A. McEwan
#24. It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.
H.C.Paye
#25. It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.
Mark Donnelly
#26. It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
B. Chancellor Burgweger
#27. It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.
Dianna Hardy
#28. More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Ben Parr
#29. It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities.
Aimee Carter
#30. We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.
James Redfield
#31. Always remember. It takes one person to start a movement.
Abigail George
#32. It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.
Kirsten Arcadio
#33. I can't wait to see the inside of your tour bus," Reagan said. "I usually have to suck off at least two roadies to get in to see a band."
Trey gaped at her and she laughed.
"I'm kidding," she said.
When he relaxed she added, "It usually only takes one.
Olivia Cunning
#35. If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.
Brian Schmidt
#36. Suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.
Virginia Graham
#37. It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?
David S. Cross
#38. Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.
Paullina Simons
#39. I'll bet your dad keeps all those memories propped up on the walls of his heart. When he gets lonely, he takes one down and thinks about you and remembers.
Natalie Lloyd
#40. [Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko's not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he's got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.
Joe Calzaghe
#41. It only takes one. Just one, and the world changes.
Rick Yancey
#42. She straightens her hair, puts on eyeliner, glosses her lips and takes one last look in the mirror, all for the boy who doesn't care.
Frank Ocean
#43. Once a woman is comfortable in her own skin, living her own life and building a foundation by herself; it takes one heck of a man to make her want to sacrifice her independence.
Nikki Rowe
#44. There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.
Jimmy Wayne
#45. It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one.
Sylvia Plath
#46. It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.
C. J. Dennis
#48. To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
Gia Russell
#49. It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.
Sheri E. Ragland
#50. It's never about time. It only takes one moment.
Jay E. Tria
#51. The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#52. It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
Noam Chomsky
#53. Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
Kalidasa
#54. Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Erma Bombeck
#55. I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
Johnny Winter
#57. It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.
Giancarlo Stanton
#58. It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
Jim Rohn
#59. She straightens her hair, puts on her eyeliner, glosses her lips & takes one last look in the mirror, all for a boy who will never care.
Unknown
#60. It only takes one person to make a change ... Let it begin with you.
Joyce Thompson
#61. If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life.
Baratunde R. Thurston
#62. That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
James M. Cain
#63. It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression.
Nahisha McCoy
#66. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.
Wes Adamson
#67. The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
Howard Staunton
#68. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
Fede Alvarez
#69. It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.
Dave Eggers
#70. An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.
Jay Kristoff
#71. It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
Steven Soderbergh
#72. If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.
It takes one to know one!
Ram Dass
#73. For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
Katie Ashley
#74. Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.
George Burns
#75. Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.
Kellie Elmore
#76. One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.
Earl Nightingale
#77. Takes one to know one. What kind of guy makes a girl an amazing cake without expecting something in return?"
"A guy who doesn't exist!" Renee yells from the couch, her mouth still full of cake. I hoped she didn't choke.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#78. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
Patsy Asuncion
#80. Chocolateism: Maintain your integrity even in the atmosphere of compromise, for it only takes one step in compromise, to start losing character.
Jacqueline R Banks
#81. Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.
Eugene H. Peterson
#82. I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.
Alexandre Dumas
#83. ... it only takes one tree to make
A thousand matches
Only takes one match to burn
A thousand trees.
Stereophonics
#84. Life's journey is but a series of steps. It only takes one step in a different direction to change that from good to bad, or from good to even better. Make sure your next step takes you in the right directions.
Jean Williams
#85. It only takes one person to change your life -- you.
Ruth Casey
#86. It was then that I realized.
There are a thousand ways to break a girl...but it only takes one to kill her.
-Alyssa 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#87. Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
Dan Farmer
#88. One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.
Vanessa Hudgens
#90. They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.
Joe Grant
#91. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you're the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet.
Marilyn Manson
#92. Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
Janine Di Giovanni
#94. 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
David Duchovny
#95. If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.
Debasish Mridha
#96. I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
Ray Romano
#97. Riley: give me a romantic comedy any day.
rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you?
riley: takes one to know one, bro.
Keri Arthur
#99. ..When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!
Jean-Claude Van Damme
