Top 100 Takes Quotes
#1. So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
Corra May Harris
#2. Ladies have come up with all these expressions to reassure men. "Oh, honey, it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean." That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat.
Jeff Foxworthy
#3. Light takes darkness vanish and worlds reappear. Light opens each day with a blaring overture, then throws its wands to earth and casts diamonds on lakes and oceans. Each night, lights tricks make the stars seem alive.
Bruce Watson
#4. I'm in love with you," I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. "Of course you are," he replied. "I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.
Anne Rice
#5. It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations
Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
John Linder
#7. I'm a sailor, Lettie, I go where the wind takes me. And it led me to you, didn't it? I was born ten thousand miles away, but the wind brought me to Barter, and now we're friends. We're on this boat for a reason.
Sam Gayton
#8. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.
John Barth
#9. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.
Sara Baume
#10. Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
Paul Cezanne
#12. Of all the people around me, you know best that it takes two to complete a story; it always does
Refaat Alareer
#13. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#14. It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.
Alistair Begg
#15. And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
James Lipton
#16. Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments.
~ Ananya Mehta
Kirtida Gautam
#17. Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.
Simon Sinek
#18. He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
#19. You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.
Jacque Fresco
#20. The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
#21. Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#22. Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?
Jesmyn Ward
#23. I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.
Anne Heche
#24. Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
Wendell Berry
#26. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Joyce Meyer
#27. Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.
Rodney Dangerfield
#28. Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
John Le Carre
#29. I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.
Sarah Hughes
#30. It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
Jason Bateman
#31. Believe it or not
it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.
Markus Zusak
#32. Okay, I like him," I admitted.
"But it takes more than a nice body, Jenks. Jeez, I do have a little depth. You've got a great body, and you don't see me trying to get into your Fruit of the Looms.
Kim Harrison
#33. It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.
Tony Evans
#34. The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.
Rocco Buttiglione
#35. It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!
Emil Cioran
#36. He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
Thomas A Kempis
#37. You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.
Kel Mitchell
#38. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. And this is how to do it better next time.
Douglas Wilson
#39. 18 but these men u lie in wait for their own blood; they u set an ambush for their own lives. 19 v Such are the ways of everyone who is w greedy for unjust gain; x it takes away the life of its possessors.
Anonymous
#40. Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.
Corrie Ten Boom
#41. Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.
Lawrence Block
#42. Samadhi doesn't just come of itself; it takes practice.
Jack Kornfield
#43. Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
Sidney Sheldon
#44. Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#45. Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes.
John Eldredge
#47. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
Will Rogers
#48. Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it's usually worth it. Sometimes, it's not.
R.K. Ryals
#49. God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!
Paula White
#50. I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Wislawa Szymborska
#51. [ ... ]patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#52. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
#53. Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.
Jill Paton Walsh
#54. 'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'
Marlon Wayans
#55. Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#56. The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
Wallace Stegner
#57. I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
Kathleen Norris
#58. Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead?
Nalini Singh
#59. If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
Jewel
#60. Thanks, babe. It takes true talent to get your ass whipped.
Sophie Oak
#61. Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.
Michio Kaku
#62. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
#63. Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Barbara Steele
#64. I think the future takes care of itself.
Pam Bondi
#66. A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. Henry
#67. To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
Laura Lang
#68. It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
Barbara Lee
#69. It takes respect, understanding, and forgiveness to make peace.
Debasish Mridha
#70. It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable.
James Lee Burke
#71. Rain drips from the sky
I hope it rains forever
If that's what it takes to wash you away from me
And when I'm clean
I'll finally be free.
Jasmine Sandozz
#74. It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.
Eleanor Catton
#75. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.
Daniel Wallace
#76. You can always die. It's living that takes real courage. - Himura Kenshin
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#77. It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Albert Camus
#78. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.
Elizabeth George Speare
#79. It takes time for people to fall in love with you ... but it's inevitable
Ian Brown
#80. Takes a moment to change everything. Savannah glanced at Jane, then smiled at Hunter. "I see you found my car." "It's just the hot rod
Janette Rallison
#81. Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.
John Rzeznik
#83. You're a superCILIOUS cock SUCKER. You know that."
"IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.
Giorge Leedy
#84. I have had my share of brawls, for I am someone who takes a stand.
Sunny Deol
#85. I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.
Megan Fox
#86. It takes a lot more energy to be covert and sneaky than it does to be open and honest.
Cristina Perez
#87. You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.
Kirsten Miller
#88. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.
Debbie Ford
#89. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.
Indigo Wren
#90. Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.
Luis Suarez
#91. It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
Julia London
#92. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
Jerome Groopman
#93. Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.
Emily Thorne
#94. Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
Daniel C. Dennett
#95. Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
Julia Child
#96. How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?
Garrison Keillor
#97. If at war, understand what it takes to win: Set a goal, define victory and fully support the effort. Leave no doubt that you respect the troops and appreciate their service.
Brad Wenstrup
#98. Frequently He "carries" them by giving them a very simple faith, which takes the promise just as it stands, and believingly runs with every trouble straight to Jesus. The simplicity of their faith gives them an unusual degree of confidence, which carries them above the world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#100. Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
Meg Ryan
