I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.”
Source: Stained
“I should know by now
that when I try to avoid
I fall in deep, I never sleep
wake me up
from this dream
I can’t even blink
I’ll ride this wave
until I sink”
Source: This Will Set Me Free
“I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.”
“I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.”
Source: The Atlas Moth
“I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.”
“I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret. What a childish idea. Then Jack would leave, no doubt, so that should would come back, as she would have to do, and her father would be plunged in sorrow of which she was directly the cause, and which would not end in this life.”
Source: Home
“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”
Source: Garden Spells
“I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.”
“I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.”
“I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day.'
'Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I should like, I think, to die of consumption; it is so romantic; and the symptoms are so agreeable! What a pity it is that it is so slow in its approaches, that we must be so long about dying of it; and then, too, there is so much coughing and groaning, so little dignity in the thing,--in short, I never could perceive any thing to admire in consumption but its name and the name is its best part.”
“I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.”
Source: De terre et d'envolée
“I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.”
“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
“I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn’t keep on thinking they’d be all withered in a few days!”
“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
“I should like the woman I choose to be very honest, generous, and to have a sincere faith in God, rather than mindlessly following the rules.”
Source: The Beautiful Pretender
“I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.”
“I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“I should like to be a horse.”
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“I should like to be famous and unknown.”
“I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.”
“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.”
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”
“I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
Source: Bertrand Russell on God and Religion
“I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.”
Source: What's o'clock
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”
“I should like to end this description of the stars with the Pleiades, which I once saw rising up out of the sea. When and where in Holland is the atmosphere ever so free from dust and mist that you can see the stars clearly right down to the horizon? One evening I saw a point of light appearing on the horizon, followed a moment later by another one. I thought they were the lights of a ship sailing by in the distance. But then a third light appeared, and a fourth, and finally there were seven altogether; it was then that I recognised the Pleiades, making for the heavens in full sail, like a ghost ship.”
Source: Leven en werk van M.C. Escher : het levensverhaal van de graficus : met een volledig geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn werk
“I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.”
“I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.”
“I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!”
“I should like to have a portrait in the attic,” Matthew mused, “that would show all my sins, while I stayed young and beautiful.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“I should like to have been killed in the war.”
Source: Reflections
“I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.”
“I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.”
“I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.”
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
“I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”
“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
“I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.”
“I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.”
“I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.”
“I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.”
“I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.”
“I should like to record that as I manipulated the peeling lacquer chopsticks to eat my jelly, I felt unbearably lonely.”
Source: No Longer Human
“I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.”