I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.”
“I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.”
“I wish we could live the rest of our lives on these rocks,' I said. 'Why isn't it possible to just live at the edge of both, the ocean and the land?'
Of course I knew why. The edge was an uncomfortable and dangerous place for both of us. The rocks were nowhere to live. I had wanted him to come to my world for that same reason.
'One day these rocks won't be here,' he said. 'The ocean will waste them away.'
'Then we could find new rocks,' I said.
'Eventually you have to choose,' he said. 'That's how the story has always been and that's the way it will be forever.'
'But why?' I asked.
'Well,' he said, thinking, 'I guess because the choice is always there.”
Source: The Pisces
“I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if your environment changes all the time, then maybe your ideas will change all the time.”
“I wish we could make out in your bed."
Noah sighed. "As do I, but I'm afraid we have ritual burning to conduct."
"It's always something."
"Isn't it though?”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”
“I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.”
“I wish we could start over. I wish we were meeting for the first time. Clean slate.’
Haley considers this. It’s such a little-kid term. ‘Do-over!’ they’d shriek on the four-square court. The kickball field. Back when there was no mistake you couldn’t fix, no hurt you couldn’t heal with Band-Aids, hugs, and snacks. She’d love a do-over as well.”
Source: Wrecked
“I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.”
“I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.”
“I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world.”
“I wish we'd had a chance together. Friends from the start, with no secrets or lies hanging between us. I wish we might have fallen in love the ordinary way, holding hands and stealing kisses under the trees. Watching the seasons change, and growing old together...in this life, in every life.”
Source: A Forgery of Fate
“I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.”
“I wish we didn't have to tell this story.”
“I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.”
“I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.”
“I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.”
“I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.”
Source: The Realms of the Gods
“I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.”
“I wish we had all been born birds instead.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.”
“I wish we had more classes together. Maybe we would know each other better.
In drama we're always pretending to be someone else,
maybe that's school in general?”
Source: The Black Flamingo
“I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.”
“I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.”
“I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart.”
“I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.”
Source: The Fall of Hyperion
“I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.”
“I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.”
“I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.”
“I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.”
“I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.”
“I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.”
“I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.”
“I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.”
Source: Teeth
“I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.”
“I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!”
Source: Little Women
“I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.”
“I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.”
“I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.”
Source: Riquet with the tuft
“I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.”
“I wish you
all the aloneness you hunger for.”
“I wish you a blessed beautiful Christmas with the fullness of grace.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I wish you a great grace to fulfill your dreams in the New Year.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.”
“I wish you a very merry Christmas filled with abundance and a magnificent magical New Year.”
“I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday!”
“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”