M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!”
“Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.”
“Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.”
“Maybe the struggle is to keep us humble”
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
“Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.”
“Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.”
Source: The Joys of Love
“Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.”
“Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.”
Source: Grass Angel
“Maybe the things you hate are keeping you away from the things you love”
“Maybe the tiny lions were merely ornaments, a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women.”
Source: We Hunt the Flame
“Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.”
“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
Source: Happening
“Maybe the true surprise, I thought, was that it had not happened sooner. My uncles’ eyes used to crawl over me as I poured their wine. Their hands found their way to my flesh. A pinch, a stroke, a hand slipping under the sleeve of my dress. They all had wives, it was not marriage they thought of. One of them would have come for me in the end and paid my father well. Honor on all sides.
The light had reached the loom, and its cedar scent was rising in the air. The memory of [Redacted]’s white-scarred hands, and the pleasure I had taken in them, was like a hot wire pushed through my brain. I dug my nails into my wrist. There are oracles scattered across our lands. Shrines where priestesses breathe sacred fumes and speak the truths they find in them. Know yourself is carved above their doors. But I had been a stranger to myself, turned to stone for no reason I could name.”
Source: Circe
“Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.”
“Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
Source: Break It Down: Stories
“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Maybe the truth is that saying goodbye seems to me a rejection of human warmth - even the minimal warmth that makes us feel solitude less. I mean real solitude, which rises up by surprise and lasts a few seconds, the solitude that derives not from lack of company or affection, but from our innate separateness from one another.”
Source: Incidental Inventions
“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
“Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.”
“Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.”
“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
Source: The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish
“Maybe the two sections of land should have been called Bad Luck Ranch instead of the Lucky Penny…”
Source: Wild Cowboy Ways
“Maybe the ugly clothes had a more functional origin. Maybe in the old days, when animals roamed free, golfers dressed this way to ward off dangerous wildlife.”
Source: Back Spin
“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.”
“Maybe the universe brought Dubh into my life to finally save me. That’s probably a stupid thought. Save me? He wants to corrupt me. Hurt me. But also… love me, I suppose?
He’s a strange man, and I’m terrified of him. But so far, except for terrorizing my mind, he hasn’t actually hurt me. He’s done the opposite. He made me come. He made me feel desired. And he wants me for himself, which is why he’s taking care of my husband as we speak.
I won’t let him take him from me. I’ve earned to take revenge on Richard. That fucking revenge is mine.
And I’m going to take it.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Maybe the universe will get tired of me.”
“Maybe the unknown is half the horror”
“Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic”
“Maybe the way you love changes from person to person.”
Source: This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
“Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.”
Source: The Story of a New Name
“Maybe the weight of human choices gets too much beyond a few seconds, the way you can’t predict the weather too far in advance because there are too many things going on.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”
Source: The Day of the Owl
“Maybe the whys and the hows aren't as important as just the knowing.”
Source: Fearless
“Maybe the wild ones weren't hyperactive; maybe they were misplaced heroes. After all, in another era, the same behavior that is now throttled with Ritalin and disciplinary rap sheets would have been the mark of greatness, the early blooming of a true champion. Riordan played with the idea, imagining the what-ifs. What if strong, assertive children were redirected rather than discouraged? What if there were a place for them, an outdoor training camp that felt like a playground, where they could cut loose with all those natural instincts to run, wrestle, climb, swim, and explore?”
Source: Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
“Maybe the wind will take me to the dessert aisle!”
“Maybe the witch thought she was protecting Rapunzel, not punishing her. Maybe she thought that if Rapunzel was locked away, no one could ever hurt her. Maybe the witch kept Rapunzel because she loved her, because she was scared that if other people could get to Rapunzel, they would hurt her. And maybe Rapunzel didn't understand the witch; maybe she was angry at her - but maybe she loved her too.”
Source: The Beautiful Between
“Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.”
“Maybe the word hasn’t been invented yet – that thing beyond diversity. We often define movements by what they’re against, but the final goal is greater than the powers it dismantles, deeper than any statistic. It’s something like equity – a commitment to harvesting a narrative language so broad it has no face, no name.”
“Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.”
“Maybe the words are the same, but the time is not the same. Iranians weren't working on achieving nuclear energy.”
“Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.”
“Maybe the world hadn’t ended at all. Maybe it was just beginning.”
Source: Mortal Tether
“Maybe the world misspoke about the big cities, and hid what was most precious in the heart of the land.”
Source: Deceiving Isn't It?
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up in was just a matter of where your foot happened to fall.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.”
Source: Moon Over Manifest
“Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals.”
“Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver