M Quotes
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“Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.”
Source: Run
“Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.”
Source: Afterworlds
“Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone?”
Source: North of Beautiful
“Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, and since I was ashamed of myself for wanting it, my scorn, as well.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.”
“Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.”
Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.”
Source: Flower Moon
“Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.”
Source: Petals on the wind
“Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded.”
Source: Black Water Sister
“Maybe that was why I picked you, too. Because right away, I liked you, princess. I was curious about you. You reminded me of me. Someone different. After a few hundred years, everyone seems the same. Not you. Not from that first night...”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.”
Source: Cease and Desist
“Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.”
Source: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.”
“Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.”
“Maybe that would be a good thing to do.
He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was he meant to judge right from wrong when he had never really striven to do right before? The only good thing he had known was his time with Drin, and Drin had died because of it.
I'd do it again Xeras. Even knowing. I would do it all again.
'Oh, Drin, I was never worth it.'
Oh, Xeras, that was never for you to say.”
Source: Father of Dragons
“Maybe that would be less crucial under Obama, Podesta thought, because Obama's approach was so intellectual. He compared Obama to Spock from Star Trek. The president-elect wanted to put his own ideas to work. He was unsentimental and capable of being ruthless. Podesta was not sure that Obama felt anything, especially in his gut. He intellectualized and then charted the path forward, essentially picking up the emotions of others and translating them into ideas. He had thus created a different kind of politics, seizing the moment of 2008 and driving it to a political victory.”
Source: Obama's Wars
“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”
Source: Pathfinder
“Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.”
“Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.”
“Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.”
“Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.”
“Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.”
“Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...”
“Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.”
“Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.”
“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”
Source: Meet the Austins
“Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it is impossible to come to terms with such a profound loss? The path I found where I could even ask that question, or maybe advance it beyond what I'd attempted in A Year and a Day, was by straddling the line: this is fiction and memoir, it is true and it isn't.”
“Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff, I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.”
“Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.”
“Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.”
“Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.”
“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”
“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.”
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.”
“Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.”
Source: Wide Awake
“Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.”
“Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.”
“Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.”
“Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.”
“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.”
Source: Going Bovine
“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
“Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.”
“Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.”
“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.”
“Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.”
Source: It: 2