I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.”
“I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless,” he said. “I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we’ve been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else.”
Source: I'll Be Right There
“I wish someone would steal my memories of you.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I wish someone would tell me it would be alright. I wish someone would tell me that I am not alone.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.”
“I wish, sometimes, that I could still see wonder in the world the way Mazen does."
"Some would call that naivete."
"Others would call it faith. Mazen has always believed in the good in people. That belief is a rare thing, and all the more precious for it.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer”
Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel
“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.”
“I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.”
Source: A Wonderlandiful World
“I wish teachers would take bullying seriously because we, as students, are hurting.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I wish teachers would take bullying seriously because we, as students, are hurting. We tell the teacher for a reason.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.”
“I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.”
“I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.”
“I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendship, may be sought and cultivated by all. It is our business to manufacture for ourselves whatever we can, to keep our markets open for what we can spare or want; and the less we have to do with the amities or enmities of Europe, the better. Not in our day, but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble. But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Writings
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!”
Source: The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
“I wish that all your childhood stars settle on your dreams - so you still see them shine while the world may to forgets them.”
“I wish that all your stars
settle on your dreams
- so you’ll still see them shine
while the world may forgets them.”
“I wish that all your stars settle on your dreams - so you still see them shine while the world may to forgets them.”
“I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.”
“I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”
“I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven’t any about men.”
Source: A Room with a View
“I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.”
“I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.”
“I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.”
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“I wish that every mirror that I look into should be broken ...”
“I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.”
“I wish that financial literacy was taught when I attended high school, not so long ago”
“I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.”
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.”
“I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.”
“I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.”
“I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.”
“I wish that Hochschild would come clean on the litany of other errors I catalogue in my essay: Conrad could not have seen any of the alleged rubber atrocities; Léopold did not burn his archives, and nothing was “locked away from outside view”; Kurtz’s head-strewn compound was not based on a Belgian official but on African warlords; Léon Fiévez’s African troops killed 100 warriors of local tribal chiefs who had reneged on a promise to supply food, not 100 hapless villagers who failed to turn in rubber; the trade surplus of the EIC reflected payments that went for infrastructure, administration, and security, not a slave economy.”
Source: The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
“I wish that I am a star, shining for every TripleS in every corner of the earth.”
“I wish that I could find a girl just like my momma.”
“I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.”
“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”
“I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.”
Source: Live Coals
“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.”
Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“I wish that I could wake up with amnesia and forget about those stupid little things.”
“I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate is not determined by outside influences. You can write wherever you are. I don't think I have the talent.”
“I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.”
“I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could explore the story more, or the character more, and also find an easier way to make the show. We never got that opportunity. But I'll always be super, super proud of it.”
“I wish that I had re-edited 'Theft By Finding' after I did the audio. Because the audio took 40 hours in the studio, and I was standing on my feet. So toward the end of it I'd be looking at certain diary entries and I would think, "Is this really worth my time to read this out loud?" And I would think, "No, it is not." I would have cut out 75 pages, just because I was tired of standing up.”