M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe every childhood is the terrain on which we try to pinpoint how much we matter and how much we don’t, a map where we study the dimensions and the borders of our worth.”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.”
“Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.”
“Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.”
Source: The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work
“Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.”
“Maybe every other sorrow I'd known in life suddenly decided to converge on this very one. I had to fight it off. And if he didn't see, it's probably because he himself was not immune to it.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.”
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let's say it's so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”
Source: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
“Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?”
“Maybe everyone else thinks your aversion to food is cute- but not me. I've watched you watch Jill. Here's some tough love: you will never, ever have her body. Ever. It's impossible. She's Moroi. You're human. That's biology. You have a great one, one that most humans would kill for- and you'd look even better if you put on a little weight. Five pounds would be a good start. Hide the ribs. Get a bigger bra size”
“Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.”
“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”
“Maybe everyone was being watched, and if they were, then an individual should be bold enough to live out the drama of their lives: to strut across the stage like the consummate player whose lines and actions are the upshot of an audience. Let them see what they would.
She texted back: Just tell me where and when . . .”
Source: Until Morning Comes
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker," said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, "and so you can stand less and less.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“maybe everything happens in a monkey that came to make the rules in heaven”
“Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.”
“Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.”
“Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.”
Source: It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
“Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.”
“Maybe faith isn’t always protecting us from the storm. Maybe it’s gaining the courage and believe that you have what it takes to make it through it”
“Maybe family is not made by blood alone. Perhaps love is enough.”
Source: The Whisperling
“Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“Maybe feeling of presence in my body is why I've always sought out extreme experiences; it forces me to be in a moment, to face the fact of my existing in that particular moment, in my body.”
“Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution”
“Maybe figuring it out is... I don't know, what it's all about. Constantly deciding. And you're true enough not to decide anything before you're ready, and you don't want to lock yourself up in a box. Maybe it's the sure people who are missing out.”
Source: Love and Peaches
“Maybe finding ‘peace of mind’ begins by realizing that ‘peace’ will never begin in my ‘mind.’ And if I spend my life paying such a thought ‘no mind,’ never-mind finding ‘peace.”
“Maybe fire and kerosene don't go together for a reason.”
Source: Three Hours
“Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.”
“Maybe for others it was difficult to find a role that suited my type. But I never thought of myself as a type. I really thought I could play anything, quite frankly. And I have. Especially in the theater, which is where I came from. And I may go back to soon, as a matter of fact. To Broadway.”
“Maybe for short periods of time it seemed to him, inside that stinking bed, that some people were exempt from tragedy and pain, but those respites were short; in the scheme of things and in the length of eternity, respites were nothing but anomalies in a relentless flow of despair and pain and sadness and horror that surely would eventually sweep everyone away”
Source: The Ritual
“Maybe for the first time a part of you thought, "Look at me.” "I want to love, and be loved.”
“Maybe for you there's a tomorrow , maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows , or three thousand , or ten ,so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it let it slide like a coin through your fingers , so much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today . And the truth is you never really know.”
Source: Before I Fall
“Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.”
“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”
Source: the bell jar
“Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.”
“Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.”
“Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.”
“Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.”
Source: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”
“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person's hope. Leave it with me and I'll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”
Source: Ghosts
“Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.”
Source: Sunset in Central Park
“Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often”
“Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.”
“Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.”
“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”
“Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.”
“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”