M Quotes
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“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”
Source: The Princess Diaries
“Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.”
Source: Juliet, Naked
“Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan’s made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you’ve been given?”
Source: Darkness in the Blood
“Maybe nostalgia is itself the problem. A Democrat I met in Macon during a conversation we had about the local enthusiasm for Trump told me that “people want to go back to Mayberry”, the setting of the beloved old Andy Griffith Show. (As it happens, the actual model for Mayberry, Mount Airy, a bedraggled town in North Carolina, has gone all in on the Trump revolution, as the Washington Post recently reported.)
Maybe it’s also true, as my liberal friends believe, that what people in this part of the country secretly long to go back to are the days when the Klan was riding high or when Quantrill was terrorizing the people of neighboring Kansas, or when Dred Scott was losing his famous court case. For sure, there is a streak of that ugly sentiment in the Trump phenomenon.
But I want to suggest something different: that the nostalgic urge does not necessarily have to be a reactionary one. There is nothing un-progressive about wanting your town to thrive, about recognizing that it isn’t thriving today, about figuring out that the mid-century, liberal way worked better.
For me, at least, that is how nostalgia unfolds. When I drive around this part of the country, I always do so with a WPA guidebook in hand, the better to help me locate the architectural achievements of the Roosevelt years. I used to patronize a list of restaurants supposedly favored by Harry Truman (they are slowly disappearing).
And these days, as I pass Trump sign after Trump sign, I wonder what has made so many of Truman’s people cast their lot with this blustering would-be caudillo.
Maybe what I’m pining for is a liberal Magic Kingdom, a non-racist midwest where things function again. For a countryside dotted with small towns where the business district has reasonable job-creating businesses in it, taverns too.
For a state where the giant chain stores haven’t succeeded in putting everyone out of business. For an economy where workers can form unions and buy new cars every couple of years, where farmers enjoy the protection of the laws, and where corporate management has not been permitted to use every trick available to them to drive down wages and play desperate cities off one against the other.
Maybe it’s just an impossible utopia, a shimmering Mayberry dream. But somehow I don’t think so.”
Source: Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society
“Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.”
“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”
Source: The Sleeping Night
“Maybe not, but that's the way some people are. They desire power itself more than what it can give them. They'd rather own a worthless tree than the edible fruit that grows on it. Just so that they can point to it and say, "That's mine." And then cut it down.”
Source: Macbeth
“Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.”
Source: There's No Place Like Home
“Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Maybe not this year or the next but one day they'd end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I'd get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.”
“Maybe not to us, but to humans. And Sonia… She is something entirely different now, and we have no idea how much power she controls or what she means to do with it.”
“Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.”
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn’t matter: that pebble’s watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending.”
Source: White Teeth
“Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”
“Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.”
Source: Dispatches
“Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.”
“Maybe now he
thinks I’m stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.”
Source: Divergent
“Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.”
“Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.”
“Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.”
“Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.”
“Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.”
“Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you're destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
Source: Good as Gone
“Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.”
“Maybe one day History will tell us that Ebola never won but rather Government's failed to act, and that Ebola just simply walked in and meet No resistance, Barring a few brave souls that fought the Virus on their own and never relied on the Government Coming to Help, the victor always writes the history what will Ebola write about Mankind”
“Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.”
“Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.”
“Maybe one day she will realize what she lost.”
“Maybe one day. . .someday. . .something good will come my way that is all my own.”
Source: Unsinkable
“Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.”
“Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.”
Source: A Million Suns
“Maybe one day the truth will shine through the shroud of misinformation.”
“Maybe one day there can be us again, but if not f-k it then.”
“Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.”
“Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”
“Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.”
“Maybe one day you'll see
me latched barkside to that tree,
teasing my way out of the skin I'm in
until I plunk into the dirt. Until I slither
then fly. Shiny and high.
Leaving only an effigy—
a hollowed-out
replica
behind.”
Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings
“Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.”
“Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.”
“Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill.”
Source: The Spell Master
“Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.”
“Maybe one night I’ll be asleep and I’ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don’t try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don’t be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.”
“Maybe one of the greatest accomplishments that we can achieve is coming to understand what we can achieve. On second thought, maybe it’s not understanding as much as it is believing.”
“Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.”
“Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome in a terrible, heartbreakingly tragic way," Puck continued.”
“Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.”
“Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.”
“Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.”
“Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.”