I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I don’t want to imagine great things, for that requires nothing more than imagination. Rather, I want to create great things, for that will require that I exercise faith in my imagination.”
“I don’t want to imply that all we need to do is pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Some of us may be able to do that.
Some of us may need some professional help.
But all of us will benefit from a long hard evaluating look at our life, and from working to realign our thinking with a sense of purpose. Even those that need professional help, we’re going to need to realign our thoughts, and to take practical steps to reignite the fire in us.”
“I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.”
Source: The Silver Catacombs
“I don't want to know about love.'
'But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong.”
Source: Half-Blood
“I don't want to know anything but this perpetual wailing, this clatter in the night, this delay, this infamy, this pursuit, this inexistence.”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!”
Source: Great Expectations
“I don't want to know, but I would like
to know it all from your own mouth,
how she fell, what she said when she screamed
and whether she cursed or blessed you.”
Source: Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.”
“I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.”
Source: Into the Wild
“I don't want to leave.”
Source: Awkward
“I don’t want to leave a mere mediocre life behind when I die. I don’t want to be safe and successful if it means I never took risks for a noble cause.”
Source: The Stalwart Supinator: Servant of the Streets!
“I don’t want to let you finish. I already know I don’t want to go anywhere with you, Draven. What part of ‘I hate you and want to stab you in the face’ do you not understand?”
Source: Court of Claws
“I don’t want to let you go. Not now. Not ever.” While she said this, tears streamed out of her eyes. “I’m here with you. Always,” he murmured softly against her hair. “I love you, Ahmar. I love you so much,” she whispered.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“I don't want to like you Lenora, I want to ruin you”
Source: Angry God
“I don't want to listen to that because I don't care about here past. I am going to take a walk”
“I don’t want to listen to the myriad chorus of voices that call me to various horizons, regardless of how pristine those horizons might be. Rather, I would much prefer to listen for the voice that created the horizons.”
“I don't want to live any more. I spend most of my life not wanting to live. The only place I am happy is here where we're being taught, and I have to think of something else, or reading books, or in the cinema. Or in bed. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. I can't remember having been happy for two or three years. Since the abortion. All I can remember is forcing myself sometimes to look happy so if I catch sight of my face in the mirror I might kid myself for a moment I really am happy.”
Source: The Magus
“I don't want to live forever. I just don't want to die.”
Source: Notes on Infinity
“I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be.”
“I don’t want to live my life too cautiously.”
“I don't want to live without the sparklers, the brightness. Without that feeling of lying flat on the ground, pressed down with barely any blood or breathing and barely even any bones. What good is living without that? Only TV and TV and TV.”
Source: The Fairy Tale Museum
“I don't want to look back anymore. I'm ready to accept that my existence will sometimes contain pain. No more trying to escape, either through nostalgia or a memory chair. They're both the same fucking thing.”
Source: Recursion
“I don't want to look dumb in front of the aliens.
Because they're surely watching me right now. Probably counting my limbs, noting my size, figuring out what part they should eat first. Whatever.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“I don’t want to look. I’ve got to look.” Vance... "Vital Perception”
“I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again!”
Source: Good Witch of the West, The Volume 4
“I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.”
Source: I Was Here
“I don't want to lose you to the pain that is in my heart.”
“I don’t want to make a big deal about this or anything, but I think it’s kind of cool how you do everything you do.”
I squinted at him.
“I mean, you use sign language, and it’s hard to communicate. But you’re into art and you can seriously cook and, for goodness’ sakes, you can even jitterbug. By the way, I told my mom, and she wants a video. Totally doesn’t believe me. But, yeah, I think it’s nice that you don’t let a little hitch in life slow you down. I admire that.”
I smiled. For a minute, I admired myself, too. He didn’t know how deep my problems ran, but he was right all the same. It was no small thing to try, to find out what you cared about in life. Even this moment, with this wonderful, temporary boy beside me, was a tiny miracle. I ought to give myself some credit.”
Source: The Siren
“I don’t want to make a bigger cage. I want to open the door.”
“I don't want to make any more mistakes. And I know that this is not a mistake... You are not a mistake. (Page 377)”
Source: Solitaire
“I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
“I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”
“I don't want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.”
Source: Ten Below Zero
“I don't want to move out of bed."
"I don't want to move out of bed either. Let's live here.”
Source: Spellbound
“I don't want to offend anybody but I never did like
fucking all that much. Like I always say
the saw enjoys the wood more than the wood enjoys
the saw--know what I mean?”
Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
“I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's...
If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's then-- then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!”
“I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.”
“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.”
“I don't want to put anyone in a bad spot," I say.
"Alice. You're in a bad spot," Cillian says.
"It's fine," I say. "This really isn't that big of a deal. all things considered."
"Well, then stop considering 'all things' for a minute," Priya says. "This doesn't have to be the greatest tragedy that ever befall anyone. It doesn't even have to be the worst thing that's ever happened to you."
"Exactly," Bianca agrees. "You're hurting right now, that's what matters.”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“I don't want to regret anything with you.”
Source: The Mourning After
“I don’t want to relax. I don’t want to … oh, dear Lord.” He had bent his head to her throat, searching for the visible thrum of her pulse. A light, hot shock went through her. “Don’t do that,” she said weakly, but he was insistent, his mouth wickedly soft, and her breath hitched as she felt the brush of his tongue. Her hands shot to his muscle-banked shoulders. “Mr. Rohan, you mustn’t—”
“This is how to kiss, Amelia.” He cradled her head in his palms, deftly tilting it to the side. “Noses go here.” Another disorienting brush of his mouth, a wash of sensual heat. “You taste like sugar and tea.”
“I already know how to kiss!”
“Do you?” His thumb passed over her kiss-heated lips, urging them to part. “Then show me,” he whispered. “Let me in, Amelia.”
Never in her life had she thought a man would say something so outrageous to her. And if the words were improper, the gleam in his eyes was positively immolating.
“I … I’m a spinster.” She offered the word as if it were a talisman. Everyone knew that rakish gentlemen were supposed to leave spinsters alone. But it appeared no one had told Cam Rohan.
A covert smile deepened the corners of his mouth. “That’s not going to keep you safe from me.” She tried to turn away from him, but his hands guided her face back to his. “I can’t seem to leave you alone. In fact, I’m reconsidering my entire policy on spinsters.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I don’t want to Rest In Peace. I want to rest in Power.”
“I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just mean that there was, for me, a kind of grace and joy in it that I can't quite describe. I'd have loved to give us all enough to live better, but... this was pretty good regardless.”
Source: Happiness Will Follow
“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.”
Source: The Room on the Roof
“I don't want to ruin my night by spending all of it kicking myself for not having the courage to do this.”
Source: What's a Girl Gotta Do?
“I don't want to ruin our friendship and what we have but I cannot for another minute stand in front of you without you knowing exactly how I feel. Because I can't see past you. You are everything to me.”
Source: Take a Bow
“I don't want to run your life, I don't know how to run your life, I don't have the authority to run your life, and the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.”
“I don't want to sacrifice myself for something. I don't want do DIE for something. I don't even want to walk in the rain up a hill in a skirt that's sticking to my thighs for something. I want to live for something instead- as men do. I want to have fun. The most fun ever. I want to start partying like it's 1999, nine years early. I want a rapturous quest, I want to sacrifice myself to glee, I want to make the world better in some way.”
“I don’t want to save the world, I just want to inspire it.”