I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“I wish people cared as much about the Earth and it's people in it as they care about who they think created it”
“I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.”
“I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.”
“I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.”
“I wish people didn’t call them that. Trolls… They aren’t mythical creatures. You can’t look up how to defeat them in the Monster Manual. There are no critical hits, no saving rolls. They aren’t make-believe. They’re real. And they’re assholes.”
Source: Chaotic Good
“I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.”
“I wish people had half the honor of dragons.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I'm a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That's it! I'm very simple!”
“I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.”
“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe
“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”
“I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.”
“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”
Source: The Rebel Angels
“I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.”
“I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.”
“I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.”
“I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.”
“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”
“I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.”
Source: Best Mysteries of All Time: A Stranger in My Grave
“I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.”
“I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.”
“I wish people would spread a Faustian rumor about me.' I leaned over and knocked Sunshine's hand out of Luke's hair. 'A Faustian myth,' I repeated. 'It's so much more interesting than just being that nouveau-poor blond girl who lives in a big house with nobody but her jackass brother with pecs bigger than his brain. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
“I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue. "Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.”
Source: Bitterblue
“I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.”
“I wish people would take more care of the countryside.”
“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.”
“I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump”
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.”
“I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.”
“I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.”
“I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.”
“I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.”
“I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.”
“I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me."
"You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do.”
Source: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
“I wish," said the old lady, "for her own sake, for the sake of her family, and for the sake of her reputation, that my lady Delacour had fewer admirers, and more friends."
"Women, who have met with so many admirers, seldom meet with many friends," said lady Anne.
"No," said Mrs. Delacour, "for they seldom are wise enough to know their value."
"We learn the value of all things, but especially of friends, by experience," said lady Anne, "and it is no wonder, therefore, that those who have little experience of the pleasures of friendship should not be wise enough to know their value.”
Source: Belinda
“I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world.”
Source: Every Day
“I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myself, but I really wish she could know. It's like when she does it, it's all I can see and I want more of it. Especially after the day we've had. I always want her making happy faces.”
Source: Count on Me
“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'”
“I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.”
Source: A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
“I wish somebody had told me to start using sunscreen when I was younger 'cause I grew up in the '70s... and at that time, I used to coat my body with baby oil. I think it's so important that we learn to be as careful as we possibly can and not only for beauty, but for skincare.”
“I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.”
“I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.”
“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
Source: Ready Player One
“I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to… I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.”
“I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.”
“I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.”