M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.”
Source: Waiting For You
“Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.”
“Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.”
“Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“Maybe the point of life is to teach us that we aren’t always going to be our past mistakes. Maybe the point of life is to open ourselves up to the things that we fear most—like love.
Maybe the whole point of my life was to simply find you, even if it wasn’t meant to be forever.
And that thought alone is enough to get me through each night of loneliness.”
Source: The Fire Between High & Lo
“Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.”
“Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.”
“Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.”
“Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)”
“Maybe the princess could save herself."
"That sounds like a pretty good story too.”
Source: Fairest
“Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.”
“Maybe the problem is that a woman doesn’t need to be conquered, Your Majesty. Maybe she needs to be won.”
Source: Not A Book: Royal Love
“Maybe the problem is that demons belong with demons. Because they’re both takers. One takes from the other but she doesn’t miss it because she’s taking just as much from him. Like children with straws in each other’s milkshakes.” He pauses. “They would be as sneaky and mean in love as they are in everything else; but they’d also both be full and happy.”
Source: Crushed
“Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.”
“Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.”
“Maybe the problem isn’t sex. Maybe it’s the way it has been locked behind centuries of shame and secrecy.”
Source: Tadow - Vivid Echoes of Modern India
“Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.”
Source: And One Last Thing ...
“Maybe the problem with holding onto memories so tightly is that they don’t allow us to make room for the future. Maybe the gentle decay of the past is a blessing that dulls the sharp blade of regret, allowing the possibility of rebirth.”
Source: Biome
“Maybe the problem with lying is that once you start faking it, it's impossible to tell where the make-believe you ends and the real you begins. It's hard to be who you are, but it's even harder to keep up the lie.”
Source: Chasing Polaris
“Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.”
“Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.”
“Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order.”
“Maybe, the question isn't who will look good by your side, who will make these days less dull, who will bring you the greatest financial benefit, who will be the one to bring you pleasure, who do you have the most in common with?.... Maybe, the question one should ask is who do you want at your side when you are dying?”
“Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths.”
“Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction.
And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It’s as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us.”
Source: How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
“Maybe the real madness isn’t in those who question, but in those who never do.”
Source: I’m Not Crazy, I Just Think: A Journey in Breaking Human Illusions
“Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.”
“Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.”
“Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.”
“Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.”
“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”
Source: Between the Lines
“Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.”
“Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.”
“Maybe the reason that I always need to rest is that I’m constantly trying to create a place where I can rest. And once I rest in the fact that I can’t create a place like that, maybe I’ll finally look for the God who already has.”
“Maybe the reason that things band members have said have given me more confidence than stuff my mom has said is because my mom says “I love you just the way you are” whereas the band members are just like “be who you want to be it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks and it doesn’t matter if you change, just do what makes you happy”
So you see
I don’t like me the way I am so my mom’s thing is not helpful”
“maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.”
“Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.”
Source: Firework: Piano/vocal/guitar, Original Sheet Music Edition
“Maybe the reason why there isn't equity it's because they took justness and put it to ice and it became justice. Frozen Constitutions and Fixed Legislatures.”
“Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.”
Source: The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
“Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.”
“Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.”
“Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.”
“Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.”
Source: The Bird and the Sword
“Maybe the secret truth about death is that dead people are whisked away from their current lives and forced to live somewhere else far away—a process similar to reincarnation but taking place not in the future but now. A sort of mortality-based witness protection program. And if you found them they would look the same as they always had. If only you knew where to find them. If only you knew where to look.”
Source: The Female Persuasion
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical, he couldn't quite let go of the belief that there must be an objective reality out there, beyond his own head.”
Source: City on Fire
“Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.”
Source: Okay for Now
“Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.”
Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic
“Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that’s what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.”
Source: Burning Falls