I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.”
“I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!”
“I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.”
“I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?”
Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.”
“I designed my today yesterday. I am designing my tomorrow today.”
“I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that's the look.”
“I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.”
Source: Unto this Last
“I desire a person, not a gender.”
“I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.”
“I desire
And I crave.”
Source: Fragments
“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”
“I desire for love to be woven so deeply into every part of me, that when he dies, I too would succumb and die of a broken heart. But a love so unadulterated and prodigious does not exist.
Fuck love, fuck beauty, and fuck Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy and every other Happily Ever After lie. Love is nothing but a morbid curiosity that will send you to your grave… alone.”
“I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.”
“I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.”
“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
“I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.”
Source: Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)
“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.”
Source: Aequanimitas
“I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.”
“I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.”
“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.”
Source: Letters and Speeches
“I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.”
Source: Letters
“I desire only Him and to be wholly His.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims
“I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”
“I desire peace, but dread to face the shadows in order to find it. Vulnerability is difficult. It's as fragile as shards. It takes forever to piece back together but only seconds to destroy.”
Source: Ashes
“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.”
“I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.”
“I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.”
“I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.”
Source: The Ladder of Perfection
“I desire the ordinary,
but my calling comes from
beyond the walls of Troy.”
Source: We Will Never Be Here Again
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
“I desire the world - therefore I have it.”
“I desire therefore I exist.”
“I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training”
“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”
Source: Indulgence
“I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.”
“I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."”
“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”
“I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles”
“I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.”
“I desire to have not the desires since it is a way towards satisfaction; otherwise, the sorrows and worries move forward to say welcome.”
“I desire to know wherefore I am banished?”
“I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.”
“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”
“I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
Source: The Best of James Joyce
“I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.”