I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want to dominate the man's world.”
“I want to douse myself in silver words
and whisper away all rue.”
Source: Autopsy of the seasons
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.”
Source: The Girl on the Train
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
Source: The Girl on the Train
“I want to drag you off and hide you away,” he whispered. “Why?” “I always knew you were beautiful, but now everyone else will too. I won’t be able to keep other boys away from you, and it’ll make me crazy.”
“I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.”
Source: A Life of One's Own
“I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.”
“I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.”
“I want to draw you,' I said. 'As my birthday present to me.'
His smile was positively feline.
I added, flipping open my sketchbook and turning to the first page, 'You said once that nude would be best.'
Rhys's eyes glowed, and a whisper of his power through the room had the curtains parting, flooding the space with midmorning sunshine. Showing every glorious naked inch of him sprawled across the bed, illuminating the faint reds and golds of his wings. 'Do your worst, Cursebreaker.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.”
“I want to dress like a child as much as possible.”
“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.”
“i want to drip myself in wild creativity and glow”
“I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.”
“I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I could only find someone that could take it as hard and long a I can give it.”
Source: Iced
“I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired," and my spirit says "I have no desire," whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!”
“I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.”
“I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.”
“I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need
to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I
might cut out my heart or take every pill that was ever
made.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
“I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.”
“I want to elect the next president.”
“I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.”
“I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.”
“I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.”
“I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.”
“I want to emphasize how important it is to maintain a collaborative relationship even when you’re setting boundaries. Your response must always be expressed in the form of strong, yet empathic, limit-setting boundaries—that is, tough love.”
Source: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”
“I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.”
“I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.”
“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”
“I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.”
“I want to empower women.”
“I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.”
“I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!”
“I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.”
“I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.”
“I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.”
“I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.”
“I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.”
“I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.”
“I want to encourage, uplift and support you!”
“I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.”
“I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer.”
Source: When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back
“I want to encourage you in your pain so that you will completely experience it in all its fullness, because as the experience of a new intensity it is a great life experience and leads everything back again to life, like everything that reaches a certain degree of greatest strength.”
Source: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.”
“I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.”
“I want to end here with the most common and least understood sexual problem. So ordinary is this problem, so likely are you to suffer from it, that it usually goes unnoticed. It doesn't even have a name. The writer Robertson Davies dubs it acedia. “Acedia” used to be reckoned a sin, one of the seven deadly sins, in fact. Medieval theologians translated it as “sloth,” but it is not physical torpor that makes acedia so deadly. It is the torpor of the soul, the indifference that creeps up on us as we age and grow accustomed to those we love, that poisons so much of adult life.
As we fight our way out of the problems of adolescence and early adulthood, we often notice that the defeats and setbacks that troubled us in our youth are no longer as agonizing. This comes as welcome relief, but it has a cost. Whatever buffers us from the turmoil and pain of loss also buffers us from feeling joy. It is easy to mistake the indifference that creeps over us with age and experience for the growth of wisdom. Indifference is not wisdom. It is acedia.
The symptom of this condition that concerns me is the waning of sexual attraction that so commonly comes between lovers once they settle down with each other. The sad fact is that the passionate attraction that so consumed them when they first courted dies down as they get to know each other well. In time, it becomes an ember; often, an ash. Within a few years, the sexual passion goes out of most marriages, and many partners start to look elsewhere to rekindle this joyous side of life. This is easy to do with a new lover, but acedia will not be denied, and the whole cycle happens again. This is the stuff of much of modern divorce, and this is the sexual disorder you are most likely to experience call it a disorder because it meets the defining criterion of a disorder: like transsexuality or S-M or impotence, it grossly impairs sexual, affectionate relations between two people who used to have them.
Researchers and therapists have not seen fit to mount an attack on acedia. You will find it in no one’s nosology, on no foundation's priority list of problems to solve, in no government mental health budget. It is consigned to the innards of women's magazines and to trashy “how to keep your man” paperbacks. Acedia is looked upon with acceptance and indifference by those who might actually discover how it works and how to cure it.
It is acedia I wish to single out as the most painful, the most costly, the most mysterious, and the least understood of the sexual disorders. And therefore the most urgent.”
Source: What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
“I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.”
“I want to end tax dumping. States that have a common currency should not be engaged in tax competition. We need a minimum tax rate and a European finance minister, who would be responsible for closing the tax loopholes and getting rid of the tax havens inside and outside the EU. It is also clear that we have to reach common standards in our economic and labor policies. We cannot continue to just talk about technical details. We have to inspire enthusiasm in Germany for Europe.”