M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.”
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.”
Source: Hollow City
“Maybe I could've talked myself into believing what I wanted so badly to believe.”
Source: The Hazel Wood
“Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.”
“Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.”
“Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.”
Source: Moonlight Falls
“Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.”
Source: The Year I Turned Sixteen
“Maybe I didn’t think, at that moment, I owed it to myself. Because I didn’t. I didn’t care enough to owe anything to myself. But I did owe it to Caspian Marks. For going out of his way, time and time and again to make sure I lived the rest of my days well and accordingly. I owed it to him.”
Source: Counting Stars
“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”
“Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.”
“Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind”
“Maybe I do have a few more dresses, but I'm just like everyone else.”
“Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?”
“Maybe I don't care. Is that adult too? Occasionally not caring? And eating entire box of chocolate-chip ice cream sandwiches to forget you ever cared? For a few hours, then going back to caring and trying? They're SO GOOD!”
Source: Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land
“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.”
“Maybe I don’t know the names of any of the flowers of Vrangelya, but I know every one here. I know that soon the ground will be covered with white-and- yellow
bloodroot. Tiny explosive trout lily. Mounds
of green-framed white trillium. Rue anemone in the palest pink. All blooming in the short frame between the thawing of the ground and the leaf-out that will block the sun.
It’s what happens in spring when all of Homelands calls out:
Look at me.
Listen to me.
Love me.
Make life with me.”
Source: Forever Wolf
“Maybe I don't want you to take your time, or keep your distance, Reverend McLane. Maybe I've waited long enough for my Mr. Darcy."--Chelsea in "Persecution & Providence”
Source: Persecution & Providence
“Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...”
“Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.”
“Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.”
“Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.”
“Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.”
“Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.”
“Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.”
“Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.”
“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.”
“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
Source: Safe Haven
“Maybe I dreamt you," he said.
"Thanks for the straight teeth, then," Adam replied.
Around them, Cabeswater hummed and muttered with life.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.”
“Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.”
“Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)”
“Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.”
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“Maybe I grew so used to pain itself that I ended up welcoming it with open arms instead of threatening me to stop bothering me.”
“Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.”
“Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Some remnant of his mesmerism was still upon me. I had never been able to shake the feeling that he was tucked away in a corner of my mind, that he could read my thoughts, know what I was thinking. He had done something to me, but what that was, I had never been able to discover. All I knew was that the feeling had been with me since the morning I woke up and found myself in Venice.”
Source: Corcitura
“Maybe I had had an illusion, I thought. I stood there a long time, gazing at the rainswept streets. Once again, I was a twelve-year-old boy staring for hours at the rain. Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.
But this had been no illusion. When I went back into the bar, a glass and an ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.”
Source: The Bay at Midnight
“Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.”
Source: Vito Acconci
“Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.”
“Maybe I have been trying to be a mutant, when all I am is human.”
Source: Escaping Eleven
“Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.”
“Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.”
“Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.”
“Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?”
“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.”