I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.”
“I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.”
“I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.”
“I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.”
“I wish to feel like this all the time. That I've found my place, and that my place isn't just a geographical coordinate, but a living, breathing thing that I carry inside of me.”
“I wish to feel something much, much larger than I am, the supplicant's heart replies.
I wish to stand on the edge of ruination and defeat, to leap into a chasm full of danger.
I wish to feel my blood turn cold with fear and my cheeks burn bright with shame; I wish to feel joy that fills my lungs, and sadness that swells within me like a current. I wish to feel so much and so deeply that it washes over me in waves. I wish to drag myself toward something; I wish to lose pieces of myself along the way. I wish for hunger that drives me, for passion that fulfills me, for sensations of taking and having and losing and wanting, and I wish for all of it to come with a price, and a steep one —and then I wish for the courage to pay.”
Source: Masters of Death
“I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.”
“I wish to forget, a considerable part of every day, all mean, narrow, trivial men (and this requires usually to forego and forget all personal relations so long), and therefore I come out to these solitudes, where the problem of existence is simplified. I enter some glade in the woods, perchance, where a few weeds and dry leaves alone lift themselves above the surface of the snow, and it is as if I had come to an open window. I see out and around myself.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”
Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews
“I wish to go down under the waters—
the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where all
that is, here, existing, is
is only to be lost within the susurrations
and the rumours of water and the evening star
we wait for...”
Source: paulinskill hours and other poems
“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
“I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.”
“I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.”
Source: Bath Tangle
“I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.”
“I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.”
“I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.”
“I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.”
Source: On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
Source: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One
“I wish to have a muscular body.”
“I wish to have a taste of what the best version of myself (i.e. the image of GOD in me) feels like.”
Source: Living the Common Prayers: Turning Basic Catholic Prayers into Living Prayers
“I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'”
“I wish to have known you before you were born.
To have seen your naked soul
and to have kissed it.”
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.”
“I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.”
“I wish to have one copy of every book in the world.”
“I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
“I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.”
“I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation, the last arguments to which kings resort.”
Source: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.”
“I wish to learn silence from the dark woods, the unused middle rooms, from the girls in their white dresses,”
Source: Verschenkter Rat. Gedichte
“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”
“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and - I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.”
“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.”
Source: The Collected Last Plays
“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“I wish to live in the world behind my eyes. It is a wondrous world; one worthy of dreams. Worthier still of bringing to life.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”
“I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation
“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!”
“I wish to make it clear again that we are anti-nobody. We are pro-Africa. We breathe, we dream, we live Africa because Africa and humanity are inseparable.”
“I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.”
“I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason”
“I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.”
“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”
Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
“I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.”
“I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
“I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
-Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)”
“I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.”
Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910