I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.”
“I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"”
“I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.”
“I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.”
“I need to start using a hurricane naming system for my hangovers,” he mumbles, stretching out on the couch. “I’m calling this one Abby. She’s a total whore.”
Source: Dark Wild Night
“I need to stay calm and just pitch my game.”
“I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.”
“I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.”
“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I need to stop flirting with my pain,
No matter how familiar it is”
Source: Barely Awake: A Poetry Collection
“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
Source: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless
“I need to stop renaming the decisions I've made as mistakes just because I wish I could take them back.”
Source: Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
“I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.”
“I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.”
“I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.”
“I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.”
Source: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion
“I need to take Longganisa for her morning walk."
My adorable dachshund accompanied me to work every day and was content to spend most of the day napping in my office, but I tried to be good dog parent and take her out for multiple walks throughout the day. The Brew-ha Cafe was dog-friendly, and Nisa proved to be one of our most successful promo attempts. Whenever people saw her walking around in her adorable Brew-ha Cafe-themed outfits, custom-made by my friend's daughter, they'd stop and ask to pet her. The perfect opportunity to hand over my business card and invite them to the cafe.
Today, Nisa was outfitted in a lemon-yellow Brew-ha Cafe dress and a little flower crown to welcome spring.”
Source: Murder and Mamon
“I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.”
“I need to take you home.” His voice was strained, as if he was fighting something, and I knew home was not the place I wanted to be.
“I don’t want to go home,”
“What are you saying, Cupcake?”
“Take me home with you,” I whispered. “To your home.”
Source: The Bodyguard's Second Chance
“I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.”
“I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for?”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.”
“I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight.”
“I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.”
“I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.”
“I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.”
“I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“I need to tell you a story.'
What about?
Zachariah, Zachariah, my foundling boy. 'A boy. A boxer, a fighting man. A brother. No. About brothers, sisters. Foundlings, laid-in-the-streets. Fights, fighting. A boy, it all begins with the boy. My love. A wolf. Peter and the Wolf! Oh dear! I am very crazy! Let me—I must tell you this story.'
Why?
'I'm frightened.'
Of?
'Fractals. Patterns.'
Ah, says the fish, looking at Rachel with his wise eyes. Chaos!
'Yes,' thinks Rachel. 'Chaos. Fearful symmetry.'
Go home, says the fish, flipping over, flashing in light, and diving down into the great blue sea.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty. So, I do get you. You hoped things would be different. More interesting. More exciting. More fulfilling, special and magical.”
Source: The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
“I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.”
“I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.”
“I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.”
“I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.”
Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir
“I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.”
“I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.”
“I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.”
Source: Nerve
“I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt.”
“I need to use the restroom," Sherry says. She looks at Annika. "Would you like to come with me?"
"No," Annika says, grimacing and using the same tone you'd use to turn down an elective root canal.
Sherry looks at her in confusion. "No?"
Annika pauses. Removes the napkin from her lap and smiles. "Actually, yes. I should probably go now, too."
I keep my expression blank, but inside I'm laughing. Annika's honest response to what is essentially one of the most common female conventions is priceless, but she says it so sweetly- without a trace of sarcasm- that I may be the only one who realizes she didn't arbitrarily change her mind. It just took her a few extra seconds to shuffle through her brain for the appropriate social response. No wonder she was so tired after I took her to my company dinner. It must be exhausting, and it makes me feel extra protective of her.”
Source: The Girl He Used to Know
“I need to walk before I can run”
“I need to want and I can’t want if I have it all standing right there in front of me.”
“I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.”
“I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.”
“I need to work on everything.”
“I need to work on me.
The me
without you.”
“I need to work outside government, on my own.”
“I need to work to feel well.”
“I need to work to support my family.”
“I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.”
“I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.”
Source: Eleven Minutes