M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.”
“Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.”
“Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.”
“Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.”
“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.”
“Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery beautifully, in a way that illuminates hearts and makes people begin to turn away. That would be miracle enough for me.”
“Maybe power like Lethe, power like the societies, like the dean of Yale University, made explanations unnecessary.”
Source: Ninth House
“Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.”
“Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.”
“Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?”
“Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.”
Source: Boy Toy
“Maybe radicalization is much more of a problem these days than cult participation. They're pretty close to each other. But in order to understand why someone would sign onto something like this, you have to see the good.”
“Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.”
“Maybe RainWings are more evolved than the rest of us,” Sunny said. “Maybe all dragons should try to be more like them. They’re happy, aren’t they?”
True, Glory thought. But maybe I could have been happy as Queen Scarlet’s prisoner, as long as I got to lie in the sun and eat pineapple all day. And then where would my friends be?
“I don’t think it’s enough to just be happy,” Glory said slowly. “I think you have to care about something, too. Like other dragons who need you, for instance. And you still have to be ready to fight, just in case some creepy ‘less evolved’ dragons decide to invade your territory and kidnap a bunch of you.”
Source: The Hidden Kingdom
“Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.”
Source: Nothing to See Here
“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”
Source: Coventry
“Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth?”
Source: Mister Monkey
“Maybe rebellion had gotten its teeth into her soul.”
Source: Dust
“Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.”
“Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.”
“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”
“Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.”
Source: Shoulder the Sky: A Novel
“Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.”
“Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.”
“Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Maybe,' said Sam; 'but where there's life there's hope, as my gaffer used to say; and need of of vittles, as he mostways used to add. You have a bite, Mr. Frodo, and then a bit of sleep.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Maybe Sandy was right, and she was a saint, and saints were universally despised by their families.”
“Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.”
“Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.”
“Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it.”
“Maybe Scotty the Potty turned into Scotty the Hottie. Have you thought about that?”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.
I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said I didn’t have a place on Earth—they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.”
Source: If I Was Your Girl
“Maybe self-criticism isn’t the problem, but rather how we react to the criticism that is the problem.”
Source: The Disbelief Habit: How to Use Doubt to Make Peace with Your Inner Critic
“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
“Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.”
Source: Anna and the King of Siam
“Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“Maybe sharing my story is my duty to bring awareness about delicate topics such as Refugees' fate, discrimination, depression, bullying: false and thoughtless people, who poison your soul with lies, cheats and betrayal to achieve their own goals at your cost.”
Source: The Stolen Years In Zurich
“Maybe she acts like a child around you because you treat her like a child. And she’s not. She might be young in a lot of ways, but her soul has gone through more than most do in a lifetime.”
Source: Before I Ever Met You
“Maybe she couldn't take the thought of people jumping from the Notch when her mother did not decide to die. She kept a secret from me and left me without her, to do what she felt she needed to do. Does that mean we're no longer friends? I lied for her; I told no one she was wanting to leave. And now, the friend I believed I would always have, because I chose to believe it, is gone.”
Source: Orphans of Canland
“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Maybe she'd go for a walk, just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Maybe she’d never imagined herself having a fairy-tale romance like Charity’s, but she wouldn’t protest having a husband who was fine to look at. Very fine indeed.”
Source: Convincing the Cowgirl
“Maybe she’d remember him as a pain in the ass. Or maybe, he hoped most of all, that she’d remember what she told him: “You can be a real jerk sometimes, but you’re decent.”
As epitaphs went, it wasn’t bad.”
Source: First Bite
“Maybe she decided to hitchhike, which sounds a bit weird these days, but in those days we used to hitchhike quite a lot. I wasn’t really concerned about her; you hadn’t yet had your Ivan Milats and the sort of people who mean a hell of a lot less people hitchhike these days.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“Maybe she didn't cry because tears were a currency in her life for so long that holding them back meant she was richer.”
“Maybe she didn’t die upset. Maybe she let go, Sage, because she finally felt like everything was going to be okay.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Maybe she didn’t do something big. Maybe she just told someone something.”
Frank looked over at me, more serious now. “Like what?”
I shrugged. “Something they’d been needing to hear,” I said. I thought it over for a moment, then added, “I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.”
“Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.”