In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Stevie Wonder

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Ninon de L'Enclos

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell

Time takes all and gives all.
Giordano Bruno

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Jean Anouilh

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
Lee Harvey Oswald

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
Karl Kraus

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus