I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I needed to fall in love with him. I closed my eyes, pictured my dear friend, and attempted to feel love for him. But as with all the other times I'd tried over the past few days to evoke any heat, I couldn't do so. Not only wasn't there a spark, there wasn't any fuel either.”
Source: Ensnared
“I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?”
“I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.”
“I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.”
“I needed to find out if I still had a motherlode of gratitude buried somewhere in my psyche. I would have to first clear the debris of disenchantment, clear the path and allow that small trickle to come through.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.”
“I needed to find the God I’d met in that jail cell, the one who didn’t give me what I deserved. The one who gave me freedom when I deserved judgement. The one who gave me mercy when I deserved wrath. The one who gave me a clean slate after I had muddied it up. I needed Him, whoever He was; that was the God I needed for my condition. That God answered my prayers.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.”
“I needed to get out and my roomies had both left me for the night so I followed the pretty one here.” Did Marcus just call me pretty?”
Source: Because of Low
“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.”
“I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.”
“I needed to go far, far away. I needed to see my mother. See her face, hear her voice. The image of her flooded my mind: her dark skin, her sweet voice, but her face was soon replaced by Ms. Han's Asian features, her harsh voice barking orders.”
Source: The Butterfly Effect
“I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.”
“I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.”
Source: The Beauty of Living Twice
“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
“I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”
Source: Prom
“I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.”
“I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.”
“I needed to keep my watch on because I needed to know exactly what time it was. And when they tried to take it off me I screamed, so they let me keep it on.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
“I needed to know that he was suffering without me.”
Source: Why
“I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.”
Source: Dawn: A Novel
“I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.”
“I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.”
“I needed to make choices for me, whoever I was. I’d say I needed to find myself, if that didn’t sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear”
Source: Omens
“I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am”
“I needed to protect myself, so my world would never collapse again, like it did when my mum died.”
Source: One Good Thing
“I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free.”
Source: The Night Ends with Fire
“I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.”
“I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.”
“I needed to reclaim the pleasure of my body and connect to myself so that I would feel empowered to set boundaries.”
Source: Crystal Healing and Sacred Pleasure: Awaken Your Sensual Energy Using Crystals and Healing Rituals, One Chakra at a Time
“I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.”
“I needed to restrain the suspect’ is a police officers license to kill.”
“I needed to save every penny…I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That’s why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.”
“I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You’re like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield."
She froze in place. Then she spun on me, her face lit by a half-grown fruit. “A potato,” she said flatly. “That’s the best you can do? Seriously?”
“It makes sense,” I said. “Listen. You’re strolling through a minefield, worried about getting blown up. And then you step on something, and you think, ‘I’m dead.’ But it’s just a potato. And you’re so relieved to find something so wonderful when you expected something so awful. That’s what you are. To me.”
“A potato.”
“Sure. French fries? Mashed potatoes? Who doesn’t like potatoes?”
“Plenty of people. Why can’t I be something sweet, like a cake?”
“Because cake wouldn’t grow in a minefield. Obviously.”
She stared down the hallway at me for a few moments, then sat on an overgrown set of roots.
Sparks. She seemed to be crying. Idiot! I thought at myself, scrambling through the foliage. Romantic. You were supposed to be romantic, you slontze! Potatoes weren’t romantic. I should have gone with a carrot.”
Source: Firefight
“I needed to see you today. Once again it could not be. So I will spend the night tossing and turning and try to talk myself out of trying to talk myself out of you.”
“I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know”
“I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.”
“I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.”
Source: The pocket book of David Bowie
“I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had dismissed the notion as pure exaggeration. Little did I realize the actual physical weakness. It felt as if my bones had dissolved and my muscles could no longer support my weight.”
Source: Storm Glass: A Fantasy Novel with Murder and Magic
“I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.”
“I needed to stay in the character.”
“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”
Source: The Peach Keeper
“I needed to stop blaming others for my emptiness and shortcomings; I needed to stop hoping the emptiness would change without me changing. If drugs, partying, and relationships kept me continually feeling insecure while at the center of my being, then they needed to be surmounted and something else positioned in their place. I could not expect change to occur without changing what was at the center of my life or the purpose for which I was living.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.”
“I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.”
“I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.”
“I needed to touch her skin. The Earth didn’t tilt this time, but my wolf calmed inside me. Everything did. I bent to kiss her and paused, enjoying the heat of her breath on my skin.”
Source: Sedona Sin
“I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.”
Source: Beautiful Chaos