I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.”
“I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.”
“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.”
“I want everything," she replied with a faint, wry smile. "You know, I said that once, to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.”
Source: Shantaram
“I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.”
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.”
Source: The One
“I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.”
“I want faith; but I am faithless”
“I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.”
Source: Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television: A Collection of Previously Published Essays
“I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane
“I want fame now, not after I'm dead.”
“I want families to come together, and on the corporate side, I want you to know that there are men out here who stand for righteousness.”
“I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don’t look good in pictures, even though they look great?”
“I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.”
“I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.”
Source: Conversations with May Sarton
“I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me”
“I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.”
“I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.”
“I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.”
“I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.”
“I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.”
Source: Collected Works
“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”
“I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.”
Source: Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98
“I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash, and danger, and life and love.”
“I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.”
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.”
Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)
“I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I want fun now, life is here to enjoy, not to complicate and make difficult.”
“I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.”
“I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.”
“I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.”
“I want girls to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled. (The American Apparel ads) I'm over this weird, exhausted girl. I'm over the girl that's tired and freezing and hungry. I like bossy girls. I like people filled with life. I'm over this weird media thing with all this, like, hollow-eyed, empty, party crap.”
“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.”
“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.”
“I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.”
“I want girls to hear my music and want to play it again because it made their hearts feel good.”
“I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.”
“I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.”
Source: Small Changes for a Better Life: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I want God, not my idea of God.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.”
“I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.”
“I want good science, and I want it to be realistically marketed. I wouldn't like only two countries on the planet that allow pharmaceutical companies to market directly to people, New Zealand and the United States. It ought to be better regulated. And when it's presented to people, it ought to be presented in a way that's realistic. For example, often people will prescribe antidepressant medications, and we'll say, you have a brain disease; you'll have to be on these medications permanently. There is no biological marker for depression. It's not true that we know that it's a brain disease.”
“I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.”
“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.”