I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is a right to be earned and an honor to be cherished. I cannot tell you how to earn that right or deserve that honor. . . but I can tell you that the formation of your manhood must be a conscious act governed by the highest vision of the man you want to be.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love
“I want you to crave
the crisp ocean breeze
as much as I do.
I want your soul to be
as rain-swept
as mine.”
“I want you to dance naked, if you like, I'll join you.”
“I want you to do this with me, not for me.
- Arren”
Source: Godkiller
“I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.”
“I want you to feel like you're going to die.”
“I want you to feel me deep inside you. Give me that…allow me that Aria.”
Source: Untouched
“I want you to feel the pride and exhilaration of having weighed your options, crafted a wise decision, and stepped out in faith.”
Source: Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads
“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.”
“I want you to focus solely on me. I want to be the center of your universe, Hunter. Will you give me that?”
“I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!”
“I want you to fuck me, Chris,’ I said, lustfully whispering the words into his ear as he planted kisses on my neck.
His lips were wild and yearning, eagerly devouring me.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I want you to get a haircut so you don't look like Ish Kabibble on a rainy night.”
“I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.”
“I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.”
“I want you to give me a chance.”
“A chance at what?”
Shifting so that he could press his forehead to hers, he said one word. “You.”
Her breath caught. “Sean,” she breathed.
“Because you’ve got me,” he said. “All of me.”
Source: Holiday Wishes
“I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.”
Source: The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One
“I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“I want you to grab a rag,
a sponge, the corner of your shirt―
anything you can find—to sop
up the liquid—so much of it
you can’t tell what’s what—be it
mucus or bile or vomit or blood―
as if every water has been brought up
for this giving-in, as if his body
is already a river and rushing
away.”
Source: To Those Who Were Our First Gods
“I want you to grab hold of the brass spindles and don’t let go.” When she did as he required, he spread her legs wider. “Hold tight, baby. This is going to feel so good.”
“I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.”
“I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.”
Source: The Gathering
“I want you to have success and still have time for family and friends and relaxation and fun. I want you to be there for your kids, they need you. I want you to have a happy relationship with a partner who wants the same things you do.”
“I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.”
Source: Wethering the Storm
“I want you to have this. It’s the key to my heart.” He pressed it into my hands. “You have my heart already, you might as well have everything else.” - Collins McGregor in Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow.”
Source: Saving You, Saving Me
“I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. “When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance.” His eyes met mine.”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.”
“I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about these females and make them feel every way I can. I want you to feel my magic. I want you to respect me and my artistry.”
“I want you
To heed that I'm still here
Just beneath your skin and in
Each organ
The way anger dwells in a man
Who studies the history of his nation.
If I can't leave you
Dead, I'll have
You vexed.”
Source: The Tradition
“I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”
Source: I Hope This Doesn't Find You
“I want you to hold my hand not because you are forced to, but because you want to.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“I want you to hold on to that. no matter what happens you remember that this world is more than the Agony it contains. we can have happiness , salama. may be it doesn't come in a Cookie Cutter format but will take the fragments and we will rebuild it”
Source: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
“I want you to hold the rising sun,
I’m hearing the stars calling me ;”
“I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“I want you to imagine you are driving north, across the Lions Gate Bridge, and the sky is steely grey and the sugar-dusted mountains-realize that there are only more mountains-mountains until the North Pole, mountains until the end of the world, mountains taller than a thousand me's, mountains taller than a thousand you's.
Here is where civilization ends; here is where time ends and where eternity begins. Here is what Lions Gate Bridge is: one last grand gesture of beauty, of charm, and of grace before we enter the hinterlands, before the air becomes too brittle and too cold to breath, before we enter that place where life becomes harsh, where we must become animals in order to survive.”
Source: City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver
“I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.”
“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.”
“I want You to keep chasing me and I don’t want you to know how far I would go to find out the truth of something, to scratch an itch that will tear the whole universe open.”
Source: Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
“I want you to kiss me, Longinus. Kiss me like this night will never end. If I am going to die, then this is my last request. Will you grant it?”
Source: Longinus The Vampire: Redemption
“I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.”
“I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .”
“I want you to know how I see the world, not because I intend to change your mind that is far from the truth but for you to understand why I write to you. I love to see the world through your eyes. At least to have an idea of what is on your beautiful mind.”
“I want you to know I have never loved anyone like I love you. More than Darcy loved Elizabeth or Heathcliff loved Cathy. I just don’t want to make you a widow.”
“I never really understood why Brontë is considered to be a romance writer. We were required to read Wuthering Heights in high school and I always believed that her novel showcased the bleakest aspects of human nature. The story provided readers with a small yet unforgettable glimpse into the depths of human cruelty. Personally, I never considered the story romantic because the love shared between Cathy and Heathcliff was fatal, not just for themselves but for those around them. Their souls were incompatible, and they were a toxic pairing. Despite their love, passion, jealousy, and desire for connection, they were unable to recognize this fact.”
“I was never a fan of Victorian romance novels.”
“It was never one of my favorites. It’s often viewed as one of the great romance novels of all time, but I think it represents something darker: the fatal, selfish side of love, obsession, and abuse. To this day, I have not encountered a more accurate depiction of how love can become selfish.”
“Why do you say that?” Xuan asked.
“Because I think you have to love someone in the way that I love you to truly understand what love means... and to understand how wrong the story is. My soul and yours are the same in a way that Catherine and Heathcliff’s could never be. Widow or not, I will never stop loving you, Xuan. You have mesmerized me. My very soul has been entangled completely by you over these past three years. If Brontë or Austen could write the greatest love story of all time they’d write our story. And whether you marry me or not, how I feel about you will never change.”
Source: Fated to Love You
“i want you to know
i'm a mirrorball
i can change everything about me to fit in”
“I want you to know,” I whispered, “that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.”
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
Source: Bluets
“I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.”
Source: Forever . . .