I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I long to have pretty lingerie, dozens of little dresses, books—
& roses, roses, roses.”
“I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.”
“I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.”
“I long to kiss the image of my death.”
“I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.”
“I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“I long to see Christians get beyond themselves and start seeing the glory of God as it pertains to their own life. We need great people who understand that their success is wrapped up in the sovereignty of God. If we can do that, a faith, power, energy and zeal will emerge that will take us forward in the things of the Holy Spirit. We must become overwhelmed with who God wants to be for us!”
“I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.”
Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884
“I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him, there will be no unfulfilled longings or disappointments. He will welcome me into His mansion, answer my questions, and teach me the wisdom of the ages.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I long to set foot where no man has trod before.”
“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.”
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
“I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I longed for church to be a place where Mystery is experienced, not explained.”
Source: Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred
“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose. But sitting here now, I knew if I’d accepted Israel’s proposal, I would’ve regretted that, too. I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all. I’d chosen the life I belonged to.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
“I longed for the great sense of relief that death would surely bring if only, like a wrestler, I could wrench the heavy weight of life from my shoulders.”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“I longed for their approval, their applause, their pure uncomplicated love for me, and I looked for it years after I realized they were not even capable of letting me have it. To love one's children is to love oneself, and this was a state of supererogatory grace denied my parents by birth and circumstance. I needed to reconnect to something I had lost. Somewhere I had lost touch with the kind of man I had the potential of being. I needed to effect a reconciliation with that unborn man and try to coax him gently toward his maturity.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.”
“I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence.”
Source: An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published
“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”
Source: Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women
“I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.”
“I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.”
“I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.”
Source: The fall
“I longed to be the subject of a school-shaking romance, but relationships in which personality was not involved were valueless to me. What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“I longed to be wrapped in his arms again, pour my troubles, make everything feel okay, even if it wasn't”
Source: Bad Girls Don't Die
“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
“I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.”
“I longed to get level with the Bell Ringing Woman’s height of thoughts,yet I couldn’t comprehend her knowledge,and her extended views or her Ideas,which were like a kernel inside the universe fruit.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“I longed to have my mama come to me and sing me a song that settled me down while she rubbed my back, quieting my restless mind and pouting heart and helping me fall asleep, knowing I was loved.”
Source: Child of Another Kind
“I longed to know the world's name.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
“I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.”
“I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“I longed to spend and be spent for God.”
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”
Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
“I longed with all my soul to be good, but I was young; I had passions and I as alone, completely alone, in my search for goodness. Every time I tried to display my innermost desires - a wish to be morally good - I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to the base desires I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, lust for power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, revenge, were all respected qualities. As I yielded to these passions I became like my elders and I felt that they were pleased with me.”
Source: A Confession and Other Religious Writings
“I longed with all my soul to be good, but I was young; I had passions and I was alone, completely alone, in my search for goodness. Every time I tried to display my innermost desires - a wish to be morally good - I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to the base desires I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, lust for power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, revenge, were all respected qualities. As I yielded to these passions I became like my elders and I felt that they were pleased with me.”
“I look a bit like him.”
“I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.”
“I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.”
“I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.”
“I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.”
“I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.”
“I look a lot like my father and his mother.”
“I look a lot like my father when he was my age.”
“I look after myself. I train and go to the gym.”
“I look after the world as family, so the world may look after my family, when I'm not there - that's the kind of blind faith that actually makes a difference.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)”
“I look and I look...
I must have come to the wrong planet.
It's so strange here.”