I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want my girls to know who they are and have strong family connections. I want them to be educated. I want them to travel the world. I want them to be able to support themselves, and if they choose to be in a long-term relationship, it will be based on their strengths, not their weaknesses.
And I know that in order for them to get there, it is important that I take more than a surface glance at how I ended up in my unhealthy and unsafe relationship with their father. Only then will I ever have any hope of keeping my history from repeating itself in their future.”
Source: Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters
“I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.”
“I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.”
“I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.”
“I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.”
“I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.”
“I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.”
“I want my heart. I'll trade you for it. I'll give you anything. Almost anything". He tilted his head forward in a challenging way.
"Give me you"
"Anything else". Cole raised an eyebrow.
"You think I care about anything else?"
I looked down at the floor.
"Where's my heart" I said.
"You're always asking the wrong question.”
Source: Evertrue
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want to carry it with me wherever I go. I want my fragile, hurting heart, to recognize fleeting kairos, eternal moments as they pass. I want to be my own mountain and my own retreat.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!”
“I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom...it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!”
“I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.”
“I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.”
Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
“I want my internal thermostat to stop auditioning for hell.”
Source: Still Possible: A High-Risk Love Story
“I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.”
“I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.”
“I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.”
“I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.”
Source: Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
“I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.”
“I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.”
“I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.”
“I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.”
“I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.”
“I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.”
“I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.”
“I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.”
“I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.”
“I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.”
“I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.”
“I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.”
“I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.”
“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”
Source: The Ghost's Child
“I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“I want my life to defy human explanation.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.”
“I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.”
“I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.”
“I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.”
“I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice?”
Source: Circle of Heroes
“I want my marriage to be like th Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son”
“I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.”
“I want my mom to be able to wear my clothes, I want my older sister to be able to wear my clothes, and the people in my life aren't necessarily built like I am, you know? They're built in a million different beautiful bodies, shapes, and sizes, and so why would I exclude anybody from being able to have it? This is the point.”
“I want my mommy, Mr. Squidward!”
“I want my money back!”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.”
“I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.”
“I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.”
“I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.”
“I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.”
“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.”