I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.”
“I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen”
“I wish there is a news media that don't go thorough gatekeepers and don't keep sites of any political parties, but feed the shark with true news only !”
“I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)”
“I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.”
Source: The Brothers K
“I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed”
“I wish there was a more perfect way to convey what I feel for you. But I will settle for I love you. Just know it is a vast understatement.”
Source: Edge of the Veil
“I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.”
“I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.”
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.”
“I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.”
“I wish there was another way I could do this. I wish I didn't care about my wife and the kids. I wish I could walk away from you and not give you a second thought. And more than anything, I wish I could forget who I am and make mad passionate love to you and damn the consequences.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
Insightful, p.194”
Source: Invisibility
“I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there,” says Peeta.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”
“I wish there was something that lingered beyond our deaths, some hint that my dad was still here, watching over me. Instead, the Middle Sister claims our souls and carries us to wherever the Mother Goddess has banished her. We're reunited with our creator in death, but she leaves nothing for those who were left behind.”
Source: This Coven Won't Break
“I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.”
“I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.”
“I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do.”
Source: Diary of an AssCan
“I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.”
Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year. It's just too much. And at the end of the day, if you're a dealer and a professional, fine, that's your business, that's all you do. But as an individual, if you're not a dealer and it's not your business, you need time for these things. You need time to study what's happening. You need time to understand the market. You need time to go to a museum. You need time to see a show. You can't go to one every day. It's becoming a trend.”
“I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.”
“I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.”
“I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.”
“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”
“I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!”
“I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.”
“I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living.”
“I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.”
“I wish there would be more movies about scientists.”
“I wish these flies would piss off.”
“I wish they could feel the same pain they inflicted upon you.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I wish they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man," she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.”
“I wish they knew that it makes it much easier for us to receive their messages when they ask us directly for guidance. It makes it easier to help and possibly even to prevent them from making bad mistakes.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!”
“I wish they sold in shops, in high trend
goodness and noblesse
as a brand
to advertise them, and make them well sold
to let people know,
buy them,
make their story told
...
to be able to offer goodness and glee
to the others, no price, just happy and free
joy, confidence, gratitude and delight,
first thing in the morning
make a wonderful sight
good ingredients, light… if we have them fresh start
we can call heart-felt giving, and living, an art”
Source: Rhyming Dreams
“I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.”
“I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.”
“I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".”
Source: Joyful Christian
“I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.”
“I wish they would take me as I am.”
“I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.”
“I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.”
Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century
“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.”
“I wish this freedom for others too. Somewhere, a potential actor now playing the depressing role of a software engineer. A promising baker who ended up a banker and cooks up pie charts. A budding writer making up stories to escape a day’s work. A talented painter who spends her colourless days shading those shady graphs. Sadly, it does not take much for talent to turn latent.
One truly turns gay only when one finally comes out of such assumed identities and forced orientations.”
Source: I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT’ STORIES