M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.”
“Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.”
“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”
Source: How the Hula Girl Sings
“Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.”
“Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.”
“Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.”
Source: The Woman Upstairs
“Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan”
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain”
“Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”
“Maybe that’s what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.”
Source: Anita and Me
“Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.”
“Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I’d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else I’d never have started. I’ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain I’m going through is nothing. They can’t shut it off, and I can’t shut down every time I feel a little sore.”
“Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.”
“Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.”
“Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad.”
“Maybe the aliens are looking for the civilisations that don’t send out the SETI signals.”
“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”
“Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.”
Source: All the Broken Pieces
“Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.”
Source: Half the Battle
“Maybe the answers weren’t important. Maybe it was the asking which mattered. Not taking anything for granted. Maybe that’s what stopped you growing old.”
Source: A Spot of Bother
“Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.”
“Maybe the Bards function, and the function of story in general, is to constantly recreate us by re-observing us. The storyteller holds up a mirror to us, and he or she has great power to show us in a flattering or insulting manner. As we re-observe ourselves (and the author believes we are frequently distorting the image we have of ourselves) through the nightly news, advertising media (magazines, billboards, advertisements, and so forth), television, and film, we are the consciousness that collapses the wave function and recreates ourselves.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“Maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "Feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.”
“Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.”
“Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.”
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
Source: Middlesex
“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”
Source: Shakespeare Wrote for Money
“Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.”
Source: Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough
“Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.”
Source: American Pastoral
“Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.”
“Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.”
“Maybe the best things in life had no reason and we should just cherish them as the gift they were.”
Source: Immortal
“Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.”
“Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to actually act on it.”
“Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why”
“Maybe the biggest misconception humanity has about itself is that by gaining more power over the world, over the environment, we will be able to make ourselves happier and more satisfied with life. Looking again from a perspective of thousands of years, we have gained enormous power over the world and it doesn't seem to make people significantly more satisfied than in the stone age.”
“Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.”
“Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.”
“Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.”
“Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.”
“Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.”
“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
For each an imagined image brings
And finds a real image there...”
Source: Later Poems
“Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.”
“Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”
Source: Zen and Sex
“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes.”
Source: My Life in France
“Maybe the centipede in the cellar
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.”
“Maybe the choice to love is magic everyone has.”
Source: Head Over Tails
“Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department.”