M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.”
“Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.”
Source: 700 Illustrations and Ideas for Speakers
“Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful boxed and bagged products, precut, parboiled, ready to eat, and engineered to appeal to our basest desires. We were selling the opposite: naked, unprocessed food, two steps from the dirt.”
Source: The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
“Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.”
“Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“Maybe Mother will like having another person to talk to. Maybe the only reason she doesn’t want other people is because she doesn’t know them yet and that makes her afraid…”
Source: My Name is Monster
“Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Maybe moving away would make him not so disorganized. (He doubted himself.) He would send pictures to his mom of his new room, showing not only his tidiness, but also his self-sufficiency and that he could make ends meet by himself. Which would surprise her, maybe even offend her; yes, she would have been wrong about him—because Randolfo could take care of himself, he thought with a sense of pride.”
Source: Dona
“Maybe my addictive tendencies weren't limited to my zest for things I could drink. Like maybe (I learned while working with my therapist) I had broader issues with control and addiction and using substances to dial down my anxiety. And maybe self-medication is a real dangerous way of trying to quiet the noise of a mental health disorder. And maybe alcoholism also runs in the family.”
Source: Nobody Cares
“Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.”
“Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.”
“Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.”
“Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”
Source: Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising
“Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.”
“Maybe my fear wasn’t that he couldn’t sustain emotional intimacy, but that he could. Maybe the scariest relationships were the ones where both people wanted to be close.”
Source: Love's Remains
“Maybe my ‘good deed for the day’ should be my commitment to making that statement plural every day.”
“Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.”
“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.”
“Maybe my guard was up all the time and she was reacting to that. But I wish she had seen through it and I wish that once, just once, I had told her how I feel. That I feel safer when she is around. Sometimes I had tested her, wanting so desperately for her to let me down so then I would have an excuse to walk away. But she never did. I wish I could tell her it breaks my heart that I miss her more than I ever missed my mother and that the thing that frightens me the most about next October when I graduate is not that I won't have home, but that I won't have her.”
Source: On The Jellicoe Road
“Maybe my heart is the moon and hers is the sun and everything else is gravity.”
Source: Love and the Sea and Everything in Between
“Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!”
“Maybe my legs are moving toward the house because that’s what they want to do rather than me wanting to go there.”
I walked toward the house.
Macy’s legs followed.”
Source: Orchard of Skeletons
“Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.”
“Maybe my mother is God, and that's why nothing I do pleases her.
Maybe my mother is God, and that's why even though she's never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will.”
Source: Model Home
“Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.”
Source: Flipped
“Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.”
“Maybe my nows will be difficult, and lonely, and full of hurt. Probably they will. But not all of them. Mostly, they will be mine. Each now, a chance to acknowledge what is in front of me. To do my best. An inhale. An exhale. A chance.”
Source: As Many Nows as I Can Get
“Maybe my pain was my motivation.”
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
- An Eightieth Birthday”
Source: Travelling Light
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.”
“Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.”
“Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.”
Source: Lock and Key
“Maybe my time's running out, but at least I'm living. And if that's what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think you're safe, then stay. Stay right here and you let me know how that works for you.
Bacause I'm gessing it'll never be enough.”
“Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.”
“Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.”
“Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.”
“Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.”
“Maybe my work isn't a cry for help. It may just be a baby's need to cry or a dog's need to bark. You know, barks that seem connected to phantom noises and cries that just come; though a baby's cries are usually efficient - something is bothering them. Anyway, I think giving money is a sign of love. If you truly want to help someone, a lot of times giving them money is the best thing you can do.”
“Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.”
“Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.”
“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”
“Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.”
“Maybe next season we can race.”
“Maybe next time, don't bite the girl you fancy.”
Source: Not That Easy
“Maybe next time you'll take me up on dinner."
"I doubt it, Mr. Holbrook. I'm pretty sure hell will freeze over first."
Again he smiled. "Well, that may be happening sooner than you think, my dear.”
Source: The Life & Death of Jorja Graham
“Maybe next time, but probably not.”
“Maybe next year for my Nobel Prize?”
“Maybe next year is the year. Maybe last year.”
“Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.”
“Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.”
Source: The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel