I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want non-platonic affection. I want someone to call my boyfriend and it actually be real. I want birthday surprises and little 'just because' gifts. I want the opportunity to learn someone's love language, and show them how much they mean to me through it.”
Source: Close Protection
“I want not to defeat you,
But to win you!”
“I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.”
“I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.”
“I want nothing but death.”
Source: Persuasion: An Annotated Edition
“I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.”
“I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.”
Source: Gleanings in the Fields of Boaz
“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”
“I want nothing from You but to see You.”
“I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.”
Source: Accepting the universe
“I want nothing more than to bind your soul to mine because you've owned me since the moment I saw you.”
Source: Kiss From a Monster Series: Volume One
“I want nothing now. I just want to accept life and death, the way I accept the process of my breathing. Effortless. Natural. Inherent. Ceded!”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.”
“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”
“I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“I want nothing to do with privilege.”
“I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”
“I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.”
“I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.”
“I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'”
“I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.”
“I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.”
Source: Adieu, Volodya: A Novel
“I want only silence, silence and again silence. Let me die quite and forgotten, or if I must live, let me live more quite, and forgotten still...”
Source: The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Georges Daniel De Monfreid - Scholar's Choice Edition
“I want open fields, crisp air, and the Rocky Mountains at the end of the horizon. I want a man who smells like leather, looks like a glass of bourbon, and who calls me princess while drawing on my back.”
Source: Flawless
“I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.”
“I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.”
“I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
“I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.”
“I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.”
“I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.”
“I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.”
“I want our legal system to work better. I want it to be streamlined, I want it to be clearer. I don’t think you have to — shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.”
“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.”
“I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.”
“I want our people to beware that no matter how good the promise is - it is not to be carried out. The only thing I say again that will make America safe is to: Let the Black man and woman go into a state or territory of our own, and help us in that territory for the next 20 to 25 years until we are able to go for self. This will solve the problem between Black and White. And Allah (God) promises that America will get an extension of time and the Wrath of God will be turned aside from this nation.”
“I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.”
“I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.”
“I want our union of love to be consistent with the principles of the word of God and to bear testimony to the glory and the excellence of Him who called us to His love through Christ”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.”
“I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable… A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“I want out of this place.
With no reminders."
It stings -
sulphur tears
in cinnamon rain.”
Source: Cinnamon Rain
“I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.”
“I want painting to be difficult to do.”
“I want painting to be my flashlight.”
“I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.”
“I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.”
Source: The Life of Uncle Billy - Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman: Early Life, Memories of Mexican & Civil War, Post-war Period; Including Official Army Documents and Military Maps
“I want peace. Happiness. Not only for myself. For everybody.”
“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.”
“I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.”
Source: White Nights and Other Stories