Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The “good” are too cowardly to do it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)