I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish I could extract thoughts from the past. I’d like to know what was on my mind as photos were statued in time.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63
“I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.”
“I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in underneath your skin and is getting colder and colder inside you.”
“I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.”
“I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time.”
“But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.”
Source: God's Daughter
“I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.”
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right mow, and live in it forever.”
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.”
“I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.”
“I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.”
“I wish I could give myself to you in pieces so that you never get enough of me. Then I realized that you had already given me all of you; and by that single chess move, I understood, that you knew love, and already said Yes, before I do.”
“I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.”
“I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.”
“I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”
“I wish I could give you a world where everything was perfect and shining and safe. I used to think that's what we had..." He shook his head. "I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can."
"You realize how silly that sounds, right?"
"I do. But after everything that's happened, I think we could all use a bit more silly in our lives.”
Source: Everblaze
“I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.”
“I wish I could give you everything you want and still be me.”
“I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.”
“I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.”
“i wish i could go back
and tell my younger self to smile with her teeth
it wasn't your fault
the tick chose you; the doctor chose the drugs
and even if it were, you have every right
to bare your yellowed fangs and tell the world to move.”
Source: Tending Clay, Unearthing Stars: Poems
“I wish I could go back in time to my life before The News. Before my eyes would seek the arms on the clock like a tic just to calculate: A few minutes ago, my life was different. An hour ago, I didn’t know. Twenty-four hours ago, I had no idea my life was about to change forever. Friday, one week later, I have a moment of normality when I first wake up. Just a moment. A single moment before remembering. At this time a week ago, I still didn’t know. For the rest of my life, I will never not know.”
Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“I wish I could go back to being demented with grief. Feeling angry at a time like this is enough to make you hate yourself.”
“I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me”
“I wish I could go out farther from my musical history. I didn't realize how hard it was until I tried to do it. All the basic tracks on Romanian Names were done in my basement, alone, without any of the self-consciousness that comes with being in the studio. It was a completely different process. And those two things definitely made the record sound different. But you want this quantum leap from record to record, and maybe if I did make a quantum leap I'd make an unlistenable album. So maybe I'm lucky that I can't pull it off.”
“I wish I could go tell 12-year-old me like I don't worry that you just fainted in front of all the girls, one day you'll be able to make this into an episode of TV.”
“I wish I could go to Paris right now.”
Source: The Baseball Club for Girls
“I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.”
“I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.”
Source: City of Ashes
“I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash”
“I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.”
“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.”
“I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.”
“I wish I could have been the weight
between you and the vastest amount of air.”
Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief
“I wish I could have built without destroying things.”
“I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.”
“I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.”
“I wish I could have just skipped elementary school and junior high. Outside school, I loved talking to people and learning from them. I would spend time visiting with old people in their gardens and on their porches. I liked to play with little kids and chat with patients who came to my mother's office. Almost every day, I learned things about the natural world and animals, and I read more books on weekends and during the summer than I could possibly read at school. I believe I would have learned more if I had just been left alone to educate myself.”
Source: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.”
Source: Wiley Territory
“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!”
Source: The Indiscreet Letter: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“I wish I could have skipped college.”
“I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.”
“I wish I could help him. I wish I could help the dozens of other Sufferers - all the victims of wounds, maulings, burns, diseases, incipient malnutrition, and melancholic despair - aboard this entrapped ship and her sister ship. I wish I could help myself, for already I am showing the early signs of Nostalgia and Debility.
But there is little that I - or any surgeon in the Year of Our Lord 1848 - can do.
God help us all.”
Source: The Terror
“I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!”
“I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.”
“I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?”
Source: Fantasy Lover