I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open”
“I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.”
“I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”
“I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“I hope you trip on your way down the aisle," Narcissa tells Regulus.
"I hope you have a baby, and I hope it's the ugliest, snottiest, brattiest little shit that ever graced this earth," Regulus snips.
"Impossible," Narcissa retorts, hand to her chest. "I will be their mother, so they will be, at the very least, quite beautiful."
"And the rest?"
"Well, no one's perfect.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“I hope you've learned that simply latching onto a man doesn't make the difference.”
Source: The Duchess of Angus
“I hope you've left your sense of morals and decency at the door”
Source: 僕のヒーローアカデミア 4 [Boku No Hero Academia 4]
“I hope you weren't looking for me to be the voice of reason. I keep a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.”
“I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.”
“I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”
Source: Gulliver's Travels
“I hope you will find your people, my son. That matters far more...”
Source: The King's Path
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.”
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”
Source: Black Beauty
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
“I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.”
“I hope you will let nothing interfere with your enthusiasm for helping where help is needed, but don't let the slow, snails pace progress upward and onward gets you down. Remember always at the dawn of man's conscience is only three or three and a half thousand years behind us.' he had always found the comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans feel to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking and the idea ran true to him”
Source: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“I hope you will live deeply and let stories stream through you, for they are what you nourish, with feelings that pluck your heartstrings. So one day, you will be ripe through all that you wrote.”
“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
“I hope you will meet the moon - not a mountain.”
“I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.”
“I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.”
“I hope you won't take this the wrong way . . ." is another bell ringer for me.
I sense the mealymouthed attacker approaching so if I cannot flee, I explain in no uncertain voice if there is even the slightest chance that I might take a statement the wrong way, be assured that I will do so. I advise the speaker that it would be better to remain silent than to try to collect the speaker's bruised feelings, which I intend to leave in pieces scattered on the floor.
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves to be ready and able to come to our own self-defense.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.”
“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
“I hope you're all Republicans.”
Source: The Reagan wit
“I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
“I hope you're getting this down.”
“I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.”
“I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.”
“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
“I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.”
“I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I hope your bacon burns.”
Source: The Land of Ingary Trilogy (includes Howl’s Moving Castle)
“I hope your day was full of good things.”
Source: Still Me
“I hope your descendants wake screaming with memories of what you did to me”
“I hope your heart feels better.
I hope your mind is set right.
I hope your love is connected to others, and you don't feel so lost and locked up.
I hope everything is okay for you.
And by okay, I mean greater than ever.”
“I hope your mamma is quite well?"
This unexpected inquiry put me into such a difficulty that I began saying in the absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt that she would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue.”
Source: Great Expectations
“I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I hope your road hasn’t been
too challenging. If it has, take heart! I’ve come to acknowledge that there
are some wounds and regrets that time cannot fully erase; however, time
provides opportunities for healing and renewal, a shift in composition, and
a scar capable of fading.”
Source: 5-Star Career
“I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.”
“I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.”
“I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.”
“I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.”