Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
—Baudouin I (b. 1930)

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)