I Quotes
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“I don’t want people to think like me. I just want people to think.”
Source: Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable
“I don't want perfect I want something real. Something that makes me feel.”
“I don't want power. I just want things back the way they were, back to the good old days when we didn't have to be polite to Nazis.”
Source: After the End of the World
“I don't want power."
"Then what do you want?"
"I want you.”
Source: Prodigy of Revenge
“I don’t want readers who skim.
I want souls who stop.
Who feel.
Who recognize that something inside them
is also begging to awaken.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“I don't want relationships I need effort to keep them, I want people I can deal with by nature.
People who appreciate my nonsense and depression and my mood swings. Without feeling guilty for being me.”
“I don't want safe. I want you.”
Source: Live By The Team
“I don’t want sexual autonomy. I want sensual freedom.”
“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
“I don’t want Summer to be the girl who might have been. I don’t care if that makes things difficult. I don’t care if Rachel will kill me for it. I’m not going to miss this chance. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to be with her. ", Drew Donovan in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
“I don’t want the books [...] to be too far away; they, also, have become friends. I even feel this way about books I don’t own. In libraries, I find myself visiting the books I used before. I regard those rows of memoirs and letters as voices from the past, bound into books, and I like to make sure they are all there, alive and well. If they have collected dust, I take out the small towel I carry in my briefcase and wipe them off.
-from 2012 NYT Book Review Essay”
“I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.”
“I don't want the person I confide in to be around me all the time. When will I untangle my jumbled thoughts? When will I find inner peace again?”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I don’t want the void. I don’t want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .”
Source: Wild Animus
“I don't want the world. I want you.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I don’t want them back. I just want peace in those corners of my heart that still remember them.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.”
“I don’t want this,” Sirus uttered, his voice stripped bare.
“Me either.” Grey sounded as if he were in agony.
Swearing, they flew at each other in a furious kiss.”
Source: Grey's Awakening
“I don't want this to turn into a gay thing because it's not. At least, I don't think it is. Maybe. Or maybe he's just my best friend, and that's enough to change the tides and move the mountains.”
“I don’t want Tiamat to go back,” said Jeremy sullenly. “I want her to stay here with me.”
Miss Priest laughed. It was not a horrible laugh at all. “What a terrible idea!” she said. “Why do you want her to stay?”
Because I love her. I don’t want to lose her.”
Miss Priest reached out and took his chin in her hand. She looked into his eyes. “You silly boy,” she said. “Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.”
Source: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
“I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.”
Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”
“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.”
Hunter’s Hunter and Godlen Gray”
Source: Jazz
“I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, though I don't even remember what I used to do with them, when days to myself were a thing I had.”
Source: And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
“I don't want to be a person who always keeps everything safe. Life is meant to be lived. Books end — they have a trajectory and then a conclusion — but people go on. Messy, predictable, messing-up people. We fall down and get up with no guarantee we won't fall down all over again/ Nothing is tidy, and there are no neat bows. Each of us is a hundred different versions of ourselves with different people, and they all converge into a single flawed human.”
“I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“I don’t want to be a widow, I don’t want Michael Bayning, and I don’t want you to joke about such things, you tactless clodpole!”
As all three of them stared at her openmouthed, Poppy leapt up and stalked away, her hands drawn into fists.
Bewildered by the immediate force of her fury—it was like being stung by a butterfly—Harry stared after her dumbly. After a moment, he asked the first coherent thought that came to him. “Did she just say she doesn’t want Bayning?”
“Yes,” Win said, a smile hovering on her lips. “That’s what she said. Go after her, Harry.”
Every cell in Harry’s body longed to comply. Except that he had the feeling of standing on the edge of a cliff, with one ill-chosen word likely to send him over. He gave Poppy’s sister a desperate glance. “What should I say?”
“Be honest with her about your feelings,” Win suggested.
A frown settled on Harry’s face as he considered that. “What’s my second option?”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“I don’t want to be admired, I just want to be useful.
I don’t want to be idolized, I just want to be helpful.
I don’t want to be great, I just want to be successful.
I don’t want to be immortalized, I just want to be beneficial.
I don’t want to be rich, I just want to be cheerful.
I don’t want to be famous, I just want to be peaceful.
I don’t want to be eminent, I just want to be blissful.
I don’t want to be powerful, I just want to be joyful.
I don’t want to be influential, I just want to be functional.
I don’t want to be worshiped, I just want to be capable.
I don’t want to be defied, I just want to be skillful.
I don’t want to be pretentious, I just want to be masterful.”
“I don't want to be afraid," I tell him.
The sheep nuzzles his face against my leg. Despite being a cartoon, he feels like suede.
"Not wanting to be afraid always makes me more afraid," he says. "The trick, I think, is not to not want it.”
Source: Death Valley
“I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone.”
Source: Briefly, A Delicious Life
“I don't want to be alone, that should just be the beginning and the end of my story.”
“I don't want to be an insufferable pretentious "artist". I just want to fucking write. To create. And to to hear the stories of the people around the globe who go, "yeah, okay, I've been there, man.”
Source: Lacking Shades of Grey: The Thin Line Between Creativity & Genius
“I don’t want to be anyone’s arm candy or trophy,” Simone said. “Women can be more than that.”
Source: Anti-Nice Guy
“I don’t want to be apart from him for a second. It’s not chemistry we have, it’s magnetism. It’s a pull. It’s a scientific force. It’s inescapable.”
Source: Love Your Life
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.”
“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
Source: The Last Sunset
“I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead.”
“I don’t want to be elite. Am I elite?” “You need to work on it. You need to become post-factual.” “Is that the same as fictional?” “Fiction’s elite. Nobody believes it. Post-factual is mass market, information-age, troll generated. It’s what people want.”
Source: The Golden House
“I don't want to be friends with you, Ainsley Douglas. I want to be your lover. I want to bury myself inside you, I want to find out whether you taste as good all the way down, I want to feel you squeezing me, and I want to hear your cries as you take me inside you.”
Source: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
“I don’t want to be happy for you but I am. Because for all the years I heard I was too much, you heard that you weren’t enough.”
Source: At 23
“I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me”
“I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place. After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all the negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The same onus is not on me to change. Instead it's the world around me..”
Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“I don’t want to be infected with somebody’s photosynthesis as my osmosis is advancing from metamorphosis to trypanosomiasis which is a crisis – so said the analysis of the diagnosis conducted by Francis.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“I don't want to be just a noun in your life,
I want to be a verb
so I can love you
over
and
over
again.”
“I don’t want to be just another guy—because I am the guy for you.- Jared Hoffman”
Source: Discovering April
“I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be. I want to be brave, and I want to be selfless, intelligent, and honest and kind. Well, I'm still working on kind." ~ Four”
Source: Divergent
“I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”
Source: Divergent
“I don't want to be kept safe! I don't want to have someone constantly trying to keep me from tripping on my own incompetence. I want to live in a world where I know the rules, where people are just people. Not one where they keep trying to eat me. That's the reason I left the city in the first place. I don't want to be kept, not by anyone.”
Source: Skylark
“I don’t want to...be like this,” I whispered as I looked away, and once I said it, I didn’t even want to take the words back. A weird sensation hit me, almost like...like relief. That didn’t make sense. Or did it? “I don’t like who I am.”
My gaze returned to his, and the concern was still there, filling his hazel eyes and thinning out his mouth. Tears crawled up the back of my throat. Humiliating actually, to admit something so intimate like that, but now I wasn’t the only one who knew this about myself. It wasn’t my secret.
“It’s okay. You’re not going to feel that way forever.” Rider smoothed his thumb along my jaw. I closed my eyes, wanting to believe him. Needing to. He kept his voice low as he spoke. “Nothing lasts forever, Mouse.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.”
Source: Jackdaw Summer