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 had more time to visit schools.”
“I wish I had more time to write.”
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]”
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”
“I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)
“I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.”
“I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.”
“I wish I had no heart, it aches so.”
Source: Little Women
“I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.”
“I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.”
“I wish I had read “Outliers” by Gladwell, before my thirtieth summer vacation”
“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.”
“I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.”
“I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.”
“I wish I had something reassuring to tell you, but I don’t. It’s not safe out there. People are rioting and looting. There’s no telling what could happen to you, if you went out there. We need to play this safe.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.”
Source: Oh, the Things I Know!
“I wish I had spent more time at the office.”
“I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.”
“I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.”
“I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.”
“I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.”
“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
Source: Choke
“I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.”
Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First
“I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.”
Source: The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.”
Source: Spiral Road
“I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.”
“I wish I had the nerve not to tip.”
“I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.”
“I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.”
Source: Anthem
“I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.”
Source: Vellum
“I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist’s palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?”
Source: The Longest Ride
“I wish I had this book when I was a kid--a book on a shelf that came from someone of this background and made me feel that my voice was relevant.”
Source: Brownsville Bred: Dreaming Out Loud
“I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.”
“I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.”
“I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for writing. I've always preferred writing over reading, even though those things do go hand in hand. But when I do have time, even if it's not writing music, just writing in general - ideas and stories and things like that.”
“I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.”
“I wish I hadn't been taught that it was my job to make people happy all the time instead of that people are allowed to feel not happy.”
Source: Notes From Your Therapist
“I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“I wish I hadn't met you in the rain: it comes every winter.
I wish you hadn't told me your favorite wine: I've become a drinker.
I wish I never showed you my hidden birthmark:
It looks back at me at night asking where you are.
I wish I hadn't read you my journal, all the pages praising you,
It's corrupted now that I can't tell if I write for me or you.
I wish I hadn't told you my daily routine: it's not mine anymore.
I can't enjoy 11:11, my favorite song, a birthday cake, or a concert tour.
I'm not afraid of the future, it's the past that takes a while.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“I wish I hadn't made so many images.”
“I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?”
“I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.”
Source: Before I Go To Sleep
“I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.”
“I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces.”
Source: Alive at the End of the World
“I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.”
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
“I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.”
“I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I wish I knew, how to forget you.”