M Quotes
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“Maya knows why the caged bird sings
but I know why she cries.
She cries because she misses her wings
and the hope of the bright blue skies.”
Source: Tell it to the Moon
“Maya lifted a bony shoulder. “Besides, even if he had messed with the babies, you kind of overshadowed it by killing a pelican.”
“Goose. And I didn’t kill it.”
Source: Burning Britely
“Maya or illusion always overpowers the soul. Does it mean that Maya is mightier?”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Maya repeated the achingly slow process with the remote control in reverse, and in the profound quiet that ensued, looked at Leyla.
‘Why are you doing this to me?’
Yasmin turned on her mother. ‘She’s not doing anything, she is gay. It’s not a choice. So I think, actually, that you should be telling us why you have such a problem with it.”
Source: I Can't Think Straight
“Maya's a zoologist, which is a hoity-toity way of saying she has a thing for animals.”
Source: The One and Only Bob
“Mayang, apa kamu akan membunuhku detik ini juga? Kamu siap ke hilangan aku sekarang? Bukankah kita masih punya waktu untuk bersenang-senang? Kenapa tidak dinikmati dulu?”
Source: Februari: Ecstasy
“Mayat dan selangka adalah jawapan terakhir,
Sesudah moral, dulu, kita anggap
Hanya sebagai hujung ekor tamadun.
(Tidakkah Kita Berada Di Sana?)”
Source: Tidakkah Kita Berada Di Sana?
“Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.”
“Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.”
“Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.”
“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Maybe . . . because for the first time . . . there was a chance I could keep him,” I say. “So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?” “Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.” And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.”
“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.”
“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”
“Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.”
“Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.”
“Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.”
“Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.”
“Maybe [Donald Trump] is just never dealt with somebody who's not particularly impressed by his carrying on, but I'm not. So I'm going to stay focused on what's at stake in this election.”
“Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.”
“Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.”
“Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?”
“Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?”
“Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.”
“Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.”
“Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.”
“maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.”
Source: Flight to Yesterday
“Maybe a cure could be salvaged from the broken syringe.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.”
“Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”
“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.”
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver
“Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.”
“Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.”
“Maybe a little. Guess I'm just dealing with the hand I'm dealt in life and listening to the words some asshole told me once.”
Source: Lying with the Devil
“Maybe a little knowledge is a dangerous matter, but that makes life happier than a higher knowledge, which gives us the atom bomb, to stay the prisoner of the worries and anxieties.”
“Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.”
Source: All the King's Men
“Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.”
“But the cloak, I took out of vain curiosity, and so it could never have worked for me as it works for you, its true owner. The stone I would have used in an attempt to drag back those who are at peace, rather than to enable my self-sacrifice, as you did. You are the worthy possessor of the Hallows.”
Dumbledore patted Harry’s hand, and Harry looked up at the old man and smiled; he could not help himself. How could he remain angry with Dumbledore now?
“Why did you have to make it so difficult?”
Dumbledore’s smile was tremulous.
“I am afraid I counted on Miss Granger to slow you up, Harry. I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart. I was scared that, if presented outright with the facts about those tempting objects, you might seize the Hallows as I did, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. If you laid hands on them, I wanted you to possess them safely. You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.”
“Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Maybe a myth is only a myth because it’s too big for us to see it as anything else.”
“Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“Maybe a person’s last job shouldn’t just be the most lucrative; maybe it should also be the most interesting.”
Source: Billy Summers
“Maybe,
A person superior to you,doesn't validate you ;
A person equal to you,validates you authentically;
A person inferior to you,flatters you.
And maybe,we have all mix in us.”
“Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.”
“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”
Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
“Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.”
“Maybe a princess would like to honour me with a conversation?"
"She would not.”
Source: Crown of Shadows