I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I do not want just your body, but your spirit. You’re going to be mine.”
“Your what?”
“My everything. Mate, wife, whatever your people call it.”
Her eyes widen. “Jeez, you move fast.”
Source: Prison Planet Barbarian
“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”
“I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.”
“I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.”
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.”
“I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!”
Source: The Best of Simple
“I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.”
“I do not want peace and harmony, I want accountability and assimilation, for when there are accountability and assimilation, peace and harmony will follow.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“I do not want people to come to Jesus because of the crisis of the moment. That is both shallow and horribly reactionary. Rather, I would want people to allow the crisis of the moment to show them all of the reasons why not coming to Jesus before the crisis was the real crisis.”
“I do not want people to miss me,
They just remember me, is more than enough.”
“I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.”
“I do not want the lying kindness and the gifts of men, nor of other than men. I am armed now.”
Source: Night's Master
“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”
“I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.”
“I do not want this cat. No, Nat. Not in a hat. Not in my flat. Not in the store, not anymore, just out the door. --if you please.”
Source: Death of a Pirate King
“I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.”
“I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.”
“I do not want to answer provocative question.”
“I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'”
“I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!”
Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems
“I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.”
“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”
Source: The Waves
“I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.”
“I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.”
“I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.”
“I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.”
“I do not want to be evacuating my home every time a storm comes through!”
“I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I do not want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness. I also do not want to be poor, because I have never seen happiness in poverty.”
“I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.”
“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.”
“I do not want to be your friend, Raphael. I do not want to watch sunrises and think of you. I do not want to close my eyes to go to sleep and see the image of your mouth when you smile. I do not want to spend a five-hour flight daydreaming about your eyes or the sound of your voice or the way you say my name. I do not want it. And yet… all of these things I have done just today.”
Source: Famous Young Things
“I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.”
“I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays
“I do not want to belong to someone else. I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free. Free to live, and to find my own way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I’ve lived, which is no life at all.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.”
“I do not want to carry any public position.”
“I do not want to centre white feminists and our problems; I want to expand our capacity to deal with them without expecting others in our political communities (and women of colour especially) to do the work for us.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”
“I do not want to date you."
He groaned. "Liv. You've got to be kidding me. I picked up my whole life, drove halfway across the country, and you've changed your mind? It's only been fifteen days since you told me you still love me!"
"Shut up, will you? Will you please just shut up and kiss me again, you big idiot?" With both hands on his face, she molded her lips to his as her heart did a happy dance in her chest. Between kisses, she said, "I want to live with you and marry you and have a family with you and share your life--all the things you said you wanted from me before I ruined it. So no, I will not date you.”
Source: Everyone Loves a Hero
“I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.”
“I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."”
“I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”
“I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.”
Source: Running the Race: A Graduate's Guide to What's Important in Life
“I do not want to encourage heckling and outbreaks at all.”
“I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.”