I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish this present hour would never end: who knows with what fate the next may come charged?”
“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.”
“I Wish This To Never End.”
“I wish this world had none of it. That we were all bound only by the matter around us and the dreams in our hearts. But it does, and we are all slave to it, unless we give the challenge. What is the point of possessing the power you have if not to use it for the greatest good you hold so dear? And why do you think that goodness exists in doing nothing, rather than trying something you’re uncertain of?”
Source: The Price of Sanctuary
“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.”
“I wish those who I love them would know and they are there.”
“I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.”
“I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.”
“I wish time had better things to do than making me wait.”
“I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.”
Source: Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Centennial Exhibition: Held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.”
“I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.”
“I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine.”
“I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.”
“I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.”
“I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.”
“I wish to be as patient as the moon who has witnessed the dark corners of the earth but has always chosen to stay.”
“I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!”
Source: The Gay Science
“I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.”
“I wish to be content and loved, yet I find it poetic, even romantic at times, to be sad and alone. Truly, despair adds intrigue to my otherwise dull existence.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
“I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how do I help create a future for American industry, American middle class, these kind of things. Those things actually really matter to me.”
“I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.”
“I wish to be naked before you," she commanded. "Make it so, Manuel.”
“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.”
“I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.”
“I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.”
“I wish to be with you forever, to look upon your face always, to never leave your side.”
“I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.”
Source: Mark Twain on the damned human race
“I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.”
“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”
“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”
“I wish to better understand the king. I have never seen him or met him, and I do not wish to enter his chambers in four months without some knowledge of who he is."
Hegai's jaw clenched, and he looked about despite the closed doors and the privacy they shared. "You know what every other virgin knows. I am sure your maids have told you enough."
She studied him. "Is it wrong of me to ask to know more than the gossips say? I know nothing of his character, of his personality. What does he enjoy? Does he laugh easily? Is he a man of quick temper? What goals does he have for the kingdom?"
Hegai smiled, his shoulders relaxing. "Ah, I see. You ask intelligent questions, but I fear I do not know the answers to any of them. These are things the wife of the king might one day ask, and things perhaps his advisors understand, but I daresay that King Xerxes is a private man. He does not share such things with his servants."
"And yet, from what I understand, it was his servants who recognized his sorrow over Vashti and suggested this contest. Is that not correct?" Esther twisted the belt at her waist.
"It is correct." Hegai leaned forward, elbows on his knees. "Esther, I like you. I think you hold much potential to please the king.”
Source: Star of Persia:
“I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.”
“I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.”
“I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.”
“I wish to clarify the situation regarding the classification of neurasthenia, fatigue syndrome, post-viral fatigue syndrome and benign myalgic encephalomyelitis. Let me state clearly that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not changed its position on these disorders... Post-viral fatigue syndrome remains under the diseases of nervous system as G93.3. Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis is included within this category.
Neurasthenia remains under mental and behavioural disorders as F48.0 and fatigue syndrome is included in this category. However, post-viral fatigue syndrome is explicitly excluded from F48.0.”
“I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.”
“I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.”
“I wish to create a piece of work that produces a permanent mark in the record book of human existence. I also write to insulate myself from leading a meaningless life. Awareness of an inescapable mortality urges me to write at a frantic pace, in a hysterical attempt to assign a purpose to my life by creating something external that endures.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“I wish to create trends rather than follow them.”
“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can”
“I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.”
Source: The Power of One
“I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.”
“I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.”
“I wish to die painting.”
“I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful”
“I wish to drown in my pain, alone, just like a moth dancing to its death in the flame!”
Source: Cinnamon Bizarre : Collection of Short Stories