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 were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.”
“I wish I were … I wish I had … I wish this never happened … I wish I could be … I wish I had chosen to … I wish I could accept myself … I wish I wish I wish! All of us wish things about ourselves and others, and how our life paths could be different. This mindset distracts us from our discomfort, but also prevents us from becoming who we most wish to be.”
“I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.”
“I wish I were like Facebook; being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get.”
Source: Curiosity kills the KatHA
“I wish I were like the fall...I wish I were like the fall
I wish I were like the fall, silent, with no desires at all
My wishes' leaves would one by one turn sallow-gold
My eyes' sun would grow cold
The heaven of my breast would fill with pain
And suddenly a storm of grief would seize my heart
Like rain my tears would start
And stain my dress
Oh...how lovely then, if I were like the fall
Feral and bitter, with colours seeping into one another, so beautiful
- In Love with Sadness”
Source: The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
“I wish I were more disciplined.”
“I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.”
“I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.”
“i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.”
“I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.”
“I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”
Source: Conversations with Greta Garbo
“I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.”
“I wish I were that cat.”
“I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.”
“I wish I were the kind of person that people would remember after meeting for the first time. But no, I am often easily dismissed. If people were places I am a sidewalk you'll never pass by; the alleys are too dark, the steps are too narrow, and it is not worth your time.”
Source: To the Sun, Moon, and Stars
“I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.”
“I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”
“I wish I were the only memory that makes your heart skip a beat and a smile bloom across your face, the one you hold close and treasure even amidst the vast collection of your past.”
“I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing”
“I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead.”
“I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!”
Source: A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie
“I wish I were with you, dear, sitting by the fire undressing, as we used to sit; and I would try to tell you what I feel. I do not know how I am writing this even to you. I am afraid to stop, or I should tear up the letter, and I don’t want to stop, for I do so want to tell you all.”
Source: Dracula
“I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.”
Source: Identical
“I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.”
Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
“I wish I weren’t reeling at all.”
Source: Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition
“I wish...I wish I were dead...”
“And what use would that be to anyone?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“I wish . . . I wish that I could . . . feel you better,” she said, wishing she knew a better way to say it. “I just, I can’t quite get at what I’m trying to reach. It’s like your skin is in the way. At the Academy I would slice my sample open, but obviously that’s not an option right now,” she said with a laugh.
“What else do you do when you can’t figure out what a plant does? Besides cut it open, I mean,” Tamani asked.
“Smell it,” Laurel responded automatically. “I can taste the ones that aren’t poisonous.”
“Taste?”
She looked up at Tamani, at his half smile. “No,” she said, instantly knowing what he had in mind. “No, no, no, n—”
Her words were cut off as two pollen-dusted hands cupped Laurel’s cheeks and Tamani pressed his mouth against hers, parting her lips with his own.”
Source: Illusions
“I wish.. I wish.. the guilt gnaws at my soul. I think of all the things that could've happened, and all the ways the world could've been reshaped to prevent what happened on that day...”
Source: Notes on Grief
“I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't.”
Source: Blood Rites
“I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish I would have not subsumed my will to every boy I had a passing fancy about. That's the part that is horrifying.”
“I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.”
“I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.”
“I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.”
“I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.”
“I wish I would've learned earlier on to be myself and express what mattered to me and how I actually felt about things.”
Source: Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma
“I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.”
“I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.”
“I wish I'd been a mixed infant.”
“I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'”
“I wish I'd drunk more champagne.”
“I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.”
“I wish i'd hurt him I didn't do any damage at all-Bella I can fix that-edward I was hoping you would say that-bella there was a slight pause "that doesn't sound like you what did he do"-edward he kissed me-bella all i heard on the other end of the line was the sound of an engine accelerating”
“I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.”
“I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.”
“I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.”
“I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.”
“I wish I'd known you when you were alive.”
“I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.”