I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish fashion would have changed a bit more; obviously, there is change, but it's not enough - for example, I don't think there's enough diversity in fashion on the catwalk, in magazines. I really would love to push that more.”
“I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.”
“I wish food was falling from the sky.”
“I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“I wish for a simple life.”
Source: Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6
“I wish for adventure.
I wish to matter.
I wish for a home.”
Source: Sins of a Wicked Duke
“I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.”
“I wish for an indomitable courage that is spawned by the conviction that without liberty we are without life. I want to possess a breathless passion persistently driven by the understanding that unless liberty is running untethered and free, all is slavery. And I want to be so desperately thirsty for these that I should I need to die for them in order to possess them, I would gladly do so. It is out these convictions that great people are raised up and great nations are born.”
“I wish for each of you a time, perhaps only an hour, spent in silent meditation and quiet reflection on the wonder and the majesty of this, the Son of God. Our joy at this season is because He came into the world.”
“I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”
“I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.”
“I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.”
“I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.”
“I wish for so many things, Marty. I hope you understand what I’m trying to tell you. I love you, my dear Marty, and I always will.”
Source: Reunion: A Story: A Novella
“I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.”
Source: One Christmas Wish
“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.”
Source: Burning Bridges
“I wish for you a goodnight of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning.”
“I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.”
“I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.”
“I wish for you, beloved friend, to practice moving through anger in ways that support all of us to create the world we want for our grandchildren.”
Source: Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call
“I wish for you four animals: a mink on the shoulders, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bedroom, and a jackass to pay for it all. To you!”
“I wish for you not to go anywhere without me. In this world and the next. I wish for you to choose me. A pause, and softer. “That is, if you would wish it.”
“I wish for you to find the love you thought was yours. I wish you find love from the one who has you. I wish my love leaves your heart. I wish that there remains no sign or trace of my worthless love in your perfect little world. Even if its meant to be empty, that emptiness would be from your real partner and not because of me.”
“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.”
“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.”
“I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned.”
Source: The Manningtree Witches
“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“I wish ghosts were real!”
“I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“I wish he had let you all die”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.”
Source: What My Mother Doesn't Know
“I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.”
“I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.”
“I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics”
“I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.”
“I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.”
Source: Lovely, Dark and Deep
“I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.”
“I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.”
“I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.”
“I wish I can get a chance to charm you again. I’m so much better at the game now. But, no one else is worth the effort.”
“I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.”
“I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.”
“I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.”
“I wish I could also understand
Why relationships sour
Why friends turn hostile
Why emotions die
Why efforts to save them prove futile?”
Source: Sublime Shadows Of Life
“I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.”
“I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.”
“I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.”
Source: 300 Arguments: Essays
“I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.”