M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.”
“Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.”
“Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.”
“maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder.”
Source: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
“Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.”
“Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content....But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box - I don't let the big guys push me out of there anymore - and keep hammering away.”
“Maybe the dead are gods, there's certainly something kind about them, the way they give you room. What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. The more dead you know it seems the more living there are you don't know.”
“Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.”
Source: Wicked
“Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.”
Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
“Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image”
Source: Three Complete Novels
“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.”
“Maybe the dream is just life's way of getting us out of bed in the morning and in reality, we are all just chasing stardust...”
Source: الحب الضائع
“Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.”
“Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it.”
Source: 4:41
“Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.”
“Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world, but rather the opposite, where humans start responding like idle machines - unable to connect the emerging dots of our UN-VICE world.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world or reaching human-level intelligence, but rather the opposite where human beings think like idle machines - unable to connect the emerging dots of our complex, systemic world.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”
Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
“Maybe the first post-human intelligence won't rise screaming. It'll rise... talking.”
“Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.”
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Maybe the flies knew we were leaving. Maybe they were happy for us.”
Source: Orchard of Skeletons
“Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.”
“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”
Source: Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me
“Maybe the future isn’t what we chase, but what we carry with us—the memories we refuse to let go. And in remembering, we become travelers.”
Source: The Time Traveler
“Maybe the Generation X story need not be: We're broke. We're unstable. We're alone. Maybe it can be: We've had a hard row to hoe. We've been one big experiment. And yet, look at us: we've accomplished so much.”
Source: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
“Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.”
“Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.”
Source: Ink Exchange
“Maybe the girls were right about me having no place else to go, about there being nothing fun about my life.”
Source: All the Lovers in the Night
“Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.”
“Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist if you don't know where you are? So you burn cars, ecause when you have no culture, you're no longer a civilised animal, you're a wild beast. And a wild beast burns and kills and pillages.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Maybe the greatest evidence ‘for’ God is the destruction that we have caused in claiming to ‘be’ god.”
“Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.”
“Maybe the greatest gift that we could give ourselves is to rid ourselves of all of the things that we have gifted ourselves.”
“Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.”
“Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.”
“Maybe the greatest secret of the universe is that it acts as if it is hiding great secrets!”
“Maybe the greatest thing that I can be thankful for is the fact that God set aside a generous slice of eternity in order to create a world brimming with amazing things to be thankful for. And because He did, we have fooled ourselves into believing that we had to create the art of being jaded just to cope.”
“Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.”
“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”
Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs
“Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.”
“Maybe the happiest people in life don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.”
“Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.”
“Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.”
Source: Party Girl
“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
Source: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
“Maybe the heart is part of the mist.
And that's all that there is or could ever exist.
Maybe and maybe and maybe some more.
Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.”
“Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
“Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.”
Source: Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets