M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe. But I was always fond of killing assholes. And you're at the top of the list.”
Source: Perfect Ruin
“Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.”
Source: Take Me There
“Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good but don't bet on it. It's one of the best films of the year.”
“Maybe by making up his own history, he could make the tragedy of it all make sense. Maybe he could write reason into it.”
Source: Vertus State
“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”
Source: The Iron Trial
“Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you’re working together and depending on each other, and you’re sharing the load.”
Source: The Cove
“Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”
“Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that happens when you're starting out. After some time goes by and you get a little perspective, you realize that you don't need to react. You can just carry on with what you're doing. That took me a long time figure out; I've only gotten to that point in the last five or 10 years.”
“Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person's sense of self permanently.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Maybe change doesn’t happen all at once. Maybe we only notice it when it’s already done.”
Source: The Deep Doesn’t Drown Me: A surreal coming-of-age story for outsiders, dreamers, and survivors
“Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.”
“Maybe Christmas," he thought,
"Doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas...
Perhaps...
Means a little bit more!”
“Maybe closure feels akin to the warmth you get when sipping your coffee in a café, silently watching people do their things. You begin to appreciate life knowing you’ve made it through after a long, hard battle with all the negativities the world gave you.”
Source: a Constellation of Almosts
“Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.”
“Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.”
“Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.
In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.”
“Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.”
“Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of healing empathy and courage?”
Source: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
“Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.”
“Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.”
“Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
Source: Boy's Life
“Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”
“Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.”
Source: The Memory Room: A Novel
“Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.”
Source: Clown Girl: A Novel
“Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.”
“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other fractions suffer from the same problem”
Source: Divergent
“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.”
“Maybe," David pondered, "That’s why we don’t know our futures. Maybe if we knew what was coming we’d mess with our lives so much that the very thing that life is calling us to do is the very thing we’d screw up.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body,
to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess.”
Source: Postcolonial Love Poem
“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
“maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Maybe death was like falling asleep.”
Source: Kingdom of the Sun
“Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.”
Source: Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life
“Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.”
“Maybe Democritus did not understand that matter, as a convention or the world of atoms that makes the whole Universe, including our brain, which “rules” the senses and cognition, is the same convention. However, an atom is a convention. The World is a Convention of the Absolute. The conventions must be relative; only the Absolute is unconventional, but only by and through conventions are the world and life possible.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.”
“Maybe desire was best left unspoken.”
Source: The Nix
“Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can’t be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.”
Source: I Married a Communist
“Maybe...Destiny is finally starting to make its move.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“Maybe disappointment does lie in the gulf between what you would do for someone and what they will do for you, but she knows then, in that moment, as she's looking out of the rain-speckled window at the black, black sky, that she needs to stop focusing on what she's willing to do for other people and start focusing on what she's willing to do for herself.”
Source: Floored
“Maybe divisions like that are easy for people to accept, because then you don't have to make an effort to understand people or appreciate each of them. You just give them a general name: "black people" and "white people." "Tall people" and "short people." "Man" and "woman." But we have to forget about all those terms. Every individual is unique in herself or himself.”
“Maybe don't make it so.”
“Maybe Donald Trump doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.”
“Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.”
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?”
Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.”
Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.”
“Maybe even all this time, from the time he broke my heart for the first time and I promised myself I’ll never forgive him, I was just waiting for him on the other side of the line.”
Source: Lines
“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Source: Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition
“maybe every bit of heartbreak in life can be rearranged and used for something beautiful”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life