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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes. — Eckhart Tolle

Family doesn't go one way. It goes every way. We help each other, we protect each other, and we die for each other, if that's what it takes. — David Estes

Then what is this bullshit about it being your choice alone? 'No' is your choice, Galena. But it takes both of us to get to 'yes. — Sarah Fine

You have what it takes to finish excellently if you strive toward it — Sunday Adelaja

Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life. — Darren Johnson

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it. — Travis Tritt

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in. — James Jones

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. — Stephanie Mills

If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes — Sun Ra

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! — Henry David Thoreau

Form an image in your mind of what you want to happen, then do what it takes to make it happen. — Lana Krumwiede

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. — Flannery O'Connor

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that. — Jeannette Walls

It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far. — Madonna Ciccone

Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it — Barry A. Whittingham

[ ... ] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone. — Matthew Polly

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence. — Jay Leno

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. — John Assaraf

I'll clear the room to get your honest opinion, if that's what it takes. — Sylvia Day

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got. — Christa B. Allen

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. — David Cassidy

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — W. H. Auden

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. — Jeff Tweedy

BY DEVOTING THE TIME AND EFFORT IT TAKES TO DEVELOP WHAT GOD HAS PLACED YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF FULFILLMENT. — Joyce Meyer

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career. — Derek Luke

Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job. — Josh Shipp

Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. — M.L. Stedman

It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world. — Andrew Wommack

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it. — Shiro Amano

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. — Bob Jones, Sr.

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference ... — Richard Ben Cramer

Death does not scare me, for when it takes me, my existence is over. What terrifies me is what I will become on my way to death. — Elora Mitchell

I'll wait until we're both old and gray, chasing you around the retirement home while pushing my walker if that's what it takes. — Ann Mayburn

Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night? — George Bernard Shaw

No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday. — Alyssa Day

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. — Joseph Joubert

Death takes something with it. What did it take from you?" Eli lifted the gun again. "My fear. — V.E Schwab

... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it. — Barry A. Whittingham

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do. — Joanna Garcia

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking. — Paddy Considine

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel. — Adam Levine

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck. — Dorothea Lange

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that. — Anna Deavere Smith

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt. — Paul Ford

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane. — Ray Nagin

That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other. — Jose Saramago

I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes. — Albert Borris

Show the world that you've what it takes to get past everything it throws out at you. — Nkaujzoo Lee

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming. — Flannery O'Connor

You've got to admit it takes real genius to start out with nothing and build what she has so brilliantly built. Only — Barbara Taylor Bradford

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead! — Bruce Lee

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. — Larry Wilcox

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit. — Greg Peterson

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy. — Eugene H. Peterson

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear. — Johnny Rutherford

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt

The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't. — Don Winslow

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time. — Charles Bukowski

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there. — Red Buttons

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention. — Ana Claudia Antunes

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that. — Michele Bachmann

Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it. — Kim Harrison

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. — Terry Teachout

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes. — Frank Chodorov

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. — Bill Johnson

Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes. — Kenny Loggins

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy. — Peter Thiel

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you. — Eddie Vedder

Indeed you have what it takes to care like a mare, but can misters br one? — Aporva Kala

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek. — John Patrick Hickey

It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make. — Dan Colen

Either you will do now what it takes or ten years from now you wish that you had. — Marshall Sylver

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It ... keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o

Sometimes it takes every weapon, every tactic, and every strength to get to what I call a good idea. — Sameh Elsayed

You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good. — Lou Lamoriello

Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it? — Rory Vaden

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. — Edward Tufte

If that's what it takes". Jack had the confidence of a man who knew he had all the exits guarded. "Location 1044 — Sophie Oak

Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart — Martellis Thurmand

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do. — Marc Benioff

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. — Charles Kettering

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what takes up all my time. — Michelle Branch

It seems success takes you away from what you know, [Athenian plane passenger] said, while failure condemns you to it. — Rachel Cusk

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

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know. — Pete Wentz

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world. — P.G. Wodehouse

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals. — Curtis Jackson

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago. — Robert Teeter

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs — Tom Shadyac

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want. — Darcey Steinke

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. — Wendy Mass

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
woman to do that kind of work. — Harper Lee

It takes more than language to know what language can know. — Barry Allen