M Quotes
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“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“maybe sometimes
we’re delicate, and unsure,
and we don’t know what we’re ready to want,
so all that we’re really looking for
are people with good intentions towards us…
hoping for gentle in the unknown”
“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”
Source: The Story of Us
“Maybe. Sometimes you need one night to run away from shit, you know.”
Source: Even if the Sky Falls
“Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.”
“Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.”
“Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to realize that the wondrous exploits of telepaths were probably impossible--at least without outside assistance. But in the years that followed, I also slowly learned another lesson: to fathom the greatest secrets in the universe, one did not need telepathic or superhuman abilities. One just had to have an open, determined, and curious mind. In particular, in order to understand whether the fantastic devices of science fiction are possible, you have to immerse yourself in advanced physics. To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.”
Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.”
“Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.”
Source: The Jenna Fox Chronicles
“Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.”
“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
“Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.”
“Maybe strength isn’t always loud. Maybe it’s just… not giving up even when the fear is still there.”
Source: Touched by Silence: When Quiet Wrote Back
“Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.”
“Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.”
“Maybe success comes from simply following one's destiny.”
Source: Psychic Warrior: The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program
“maybe survival’s just learning how to breathe again under strange skies, and calling it another night made beautiful by accident, the kind where the silence hums like memory, and you realize the miracle isn’t that you lived — it’s that you kept loving the world anyway.”
Source: Living Colorful Beauty
“Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that; I'd burst into laughter halfway.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
“Maybe (Taoist story)
A classic ancient story illustrates the importance of equanimity and emotional resilience beautifully. Once upon a time, there was a wise old farmer who had worked on the land for over 40 years. One morning, while walking to his stable, he noticed that his horse had run away. His neighbours came to visit and sympathetically said to the farmer, “Such bad luck”.
“Maybe,” the farmer replied. The following morning, however, the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “Such good luck,” the neighbours exclaimed.
“Maybe,” the farmer replied. The following afternoon, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses and was thrown off, causing him to break his leg. The neighbours came to visit and tried to show sympathy and said to the farmer, “how unfortunate”.
“Maybe,” answered the farmer. The following morning military officials came to the farmer’s village to draft young men into the army to fight in a new war. Observing that the farmer’s son’s leg was broken, they did not draft him into the war.
The neighbours congratulated him on his good luck and the farmer calmly replied, “Maybe”.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“Maybe tell me about those letters. Confession is good for the soul."
I expected her to tear into me yet again, but instead she stayed silent for several seconds, running her fingers over the trim of her blanket. "I do belive my soul is past the point of helping."
"That's not true. It's never too late."
She looked at the town as we walked by, her eyes heavy with fatigue. And an ache so deep, it didn't have a name. I'd seen that look in my own mirror.
"I gave up that right many years ago," she said. "My fate is like those envelopes-sealed and tossed aside.”
Source: There You'll Find Me
“Maybe that ain't the way it is for those who kill themselves. I think it ain't about wantin' to die but the bone-deep misery of not bein' able to live peacefully. Safely. Of dreamin' and prayin' for a better life but wakin' up to the same ole pain. Livin' is hard, that's for sure. But I think choosin' to die might be harder.”
Source: Harriet's Escape: Harriet Tubman Reimagined
“Maybe that day he'd first met Bryce, the gods had sent him there. Not to be some instrument of Hel, but because Urd knew that there would be a female who would be kind and selfless and brave, who would give everything for her city, for her planet. And that she would need someone to give everything back to her.”
Source: House of Flame and Shadow
“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”
“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”
“Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.”
Source: Phoning Home: Essays
“Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.”
Source: Dark Age
“Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.”
“Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.”
“Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.”
Source: Enter Talking
“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”
“Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“Maybe that person you don't understand is just a lesson you haven't learned yet.”
“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles."
(The Dharma Bums, Chap. 8)”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Maybe that's all hauntings really are anyway: lingering love that caught fire and burned away.”
Source: I Will Never Leave You
“Maybe that's all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.”
Source: Our Infinite Fates
“Maybe that’s exactly
what the world needs right now:
less perfection.
More essence.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“Maybe that’s how all human beings feel. The reason for this is the fact our technology has advanced far beyond the understanding of an ordinary individual.”
Source: Chaque
“Maybe that’s how Eric felt about him, too, and this realization felt like the most vicious twist of the knife—that you had to see people as they truly were, not for who you wanted them to be.”
“Maybe that’s how it has to be. Maybe there is no diplomatic solution for this? Perhaps one of them has to die?”
Source: The Companions
“Maybe that’s how it is. Some people drink, gamble, or work longer hours. Others get abortions or fuck committed people. When we’re fed up making the same mistakes, maybe we change for the better.
Become less fucked up.
Happier.”
Source: Karinderya Love Songs
“Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life.”
Source: Blood Debts
“Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Maybe that's just how it feels right now and she'll be able to look back on this time with some kind of detached fondness someday. That even this keen sense of missing him will be something she grows to appreciate.”
Source: How to End a Love Story
“Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.”
Source: The Guineveres
“Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten.”
Source: Diary of a Void
“Maybe that’s the definition of nostalgia: getting sappy about things that are supposed to be insignificant.”
Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Maybe that's the thing we need to understand. Some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists, that's all we can really ask for.”
Source: The Giver of Stars
“Maybe that’s too big of a question. Let’s back up. May Ling has been with you for fourteen months now? What have you done, in the time she’s
been with you, to connect her to her Chinese culture?” “Well.” Another pause, a very long one this time. Mr. Richardson willed Mrs. McCullough to say something, anything. “Pearl of the Orient is one of our very favorite restaurants. We try to take her there once a month. I think it’s good for her to hear some Chinese, to get it into her ears. To grow up feeling this is natural. And of course I’m sure she’ll love the food once she’s older.” Yawning silence in the courtroom. Mrs. McCullough felt the need to fill it. “Perhaps we could take a Chinese cooking class at the rec center and learn together. When she’s older.” Ed Lim said nothing, and Mrs. McCullough prattled nervously on. “We try to be very sensitive to these issues wherever we can.” Inspiration arrived. “Like for her first birthday, we wanted to get her a teddy bear. One she could keep as an heirloom. There was a brown bear, a polar bear, and a panda, and we thought about it and decided on the panda. We thought perhaps she’d feel more of a connection to it.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“Maybe that's true about all larger than life people, or it may be that no one really ever knows them at all - we just have experiences near them and claim them as our own.”
Source: The Chronology of Water