I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish you the sweetness of sticky kisses,
the fragrance of muddy bouquets of weeds,
the simplicity of macaroni necklaces,
the warmth of bedtime snuggles,
the promise of beautiful tomorrows.
I wish you the hope to carry your heart
through the hard times,
the grace to forgive your inevitable mistakes,
the strength to start again every morning,
the wisdom to enjoy the journey.
I wish you enough joy and laughter in the present
to fill the silence that comes too soon
when life grows quiet and rooms grow still
and your heart beats in constant prayer
for the once-small feet
that now choose their own path
guided by the whisper of their childhood.”
“I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.”
Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy
“I wish you to become who you were born to be. To become queen.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.”
Source: Editha
“I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.”
“I wish you to know that no one in this world is exempted from saying or doing silly things; but saying & doing them deliberately & repeatedly is a devil’s thing.
Sometimes harsh words are said in anger & wrong acts are done on the spur of the moment. But the awakened souls will immediately realise the wrongness of their thought, word or deed & not only they will regret over these but will also cut it out immediately.
Darling listen – not everyone has this ability & courage to accept behaviours which are not worthy of acceptance & appreciation. But you can do it because you are an amazing, great, powerful, special & divine soul.
But these poor souls do not regret their wrong doings, because they do not consider the bad as bad. The best part is these egoistic people don’t want to know their mistake & if somehow they get to know it, they don’t want to accept it (what to talk about correcting these).
Nevertheless, I want you to always place yourself in the shoes of other people & mirror the feeling that they have in reaction to what you have said or done to them (even unintentionally or by mistake). I want you to always realise & accept your own mistakes, no matter if it is big or small.
I wish that you always remain pure in your intentions, thoughts, words & deeds. I hope that you leave traces of love, forbearance, goodness & gentleness behind…”
“I wish you to know that you are not ( in fact never will be) going backwards. You cannot undo your good or bad deeds & unlearn all that you took so long to learn.
Darling listen – Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you cannot put it back into the tube, whoever you may be. You can’t go back in time to reverse what you have already said or done. Be careful of it!
But the good news is that everything, good & bad, even your stupidity, mistakes & failures are a part of your progress (unless it was intentional or planned wrongdoing). If you don’t get the desired success immediately, you will learn & if necessary you will learn the same lesson again.
Sweetheart, you are always a product of the lessons that you’ve learned. You are what you are, perhaps more wiser, stronger & full of life today because you went through something terrible & survived a bunch of rainstorms & kept walking with humbleness.
I wish & hope that you are going to be more driven than ever & be telling a different story very soon. One of victory over everything, success, healing, health, abundance, love, happiness, peace & great joy.
Enjoy your journey & think of the bigger picture. Keep your intentions pure & Keep doing your best every day!”
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
“I wish you trusted me.”
I scooted the whiskey bottle toward him. “I don’t trust anyone.”
“That sounds lonely. You have to let people in. Let them love you for who you are, the good and the ugly. Then you know it’s real.”
Source: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
“I wish you way more than luck.”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.”
“I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I wish you were here,” I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.
I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that’s what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?”
Source: The Body Electric
“I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.”
Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
“I wish you weren't married, that we weren't hurting anyone by loving each other, and I wish more than anything that when I opened my eyes you'd still be here?”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions
“I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.”
Source: Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes
“I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.”
Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
“I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.”
Source: Letters
“I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.”
Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”
“I wish you would read me like you read your books every day.”
Source: The Flame Must Burn
“I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.”
“I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .”
Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992
“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!”
“I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!”
“I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!”
“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
“I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.”
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
“i wish your desire
to be happy
somehow outweighed
your tolerance for the heartache
they’ve caused you”
Source: I hope this reaches her in time
“I wish your heart was free, Kellen, I wish that for me, but I wish it for you even more.”
“I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.”
“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”
“I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
Nor long summer bide so late;
And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
For some things are ill to wait.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.”
“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by
“I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.”
“I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.”
“I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].”
“I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.”
“I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.”
Source: Palace of Mirrors
“I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.”
“I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.”
“I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.”