M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”
Source: Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties
“Maybe they died of disease or lived on this island into old age, but no matter which, someone was the last man standing.”
Source: Day One: A Novella
“Maybe they had no faith, Tom thought. Maybe they were like me, always expecting disaster, surprised only when it doesn't hit. Maybe we are all, the killers and the killed, equally damned; not guilty, not somehow made wise by war, not heroes, just men who are either dead or convinced that the world is insane.”
Source: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted.”
Source: Atmosphere
“Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!”
“Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”
Source: Ash Princess
“Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.”
“Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing”
Source: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
“Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.”
“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.”
“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”
“Maybe they’re a 'God-send', but don’t let that sway you… so was The Flood.”
“Maybe they’re the right feelings. Just the wrong person.”
“Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.”
“Maybe they should be questioning those feelings of doubt before they question their own hearts.”
Source: Pet Sematary
“Maybe they should build a fence around these standing stones,” I suggested.
“Our people don't like fences. We think they might just make someone curious and want to jump over it.”
Source: Stranger Country
“Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.”
“Maybe they should name more drugs cute things. I don't do meth, but maybe if they called meth 'Stefanie' I would!”
“Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we’ll make a mistake if they’re constantly breathing down our necks.’ I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me.”
“Maybe they wanted to be there for you but they couldn't be because they were struggling too.”
“Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.”
Source: Freaks Like Us
“Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Maybe they’re customers. (Simone) For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now…I’ll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)”
“Maybe things didn't get fucked up. Maybe I have been wrong all along, and this is where I was always meant to be.”
Source: Wish You Were Here
“Maybe things should just stay the way they are."
I can tell he's trying to follow that unmappable logic, made all the more inscrutable by how dedicated I am to both my nonsense and how violently I just vomited it onto him.”
“Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.”
Source: September Girls
“Maybe this city did deserve Aelin Galathynius’s flames. Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.”
“Maybe this destructive kind of intelligence was more universal than she could have imagined.”
Source: The Lights of Erde-Zwei
“Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?”
Source: Okay for Now
“Maybe this immortal thing can also be a curse at times. And it makes me somewhat glad I don’t have it…”
Source: The Companions
“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be 'Doctor of Life,' and I will be in good company. So many of us earn our 'Doctor of Life' degrees.”
“Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.”
“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.”
“Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.”
“Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.”
“Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.”
“Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.”
Source: Another Brooklyn
“Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I’ve gotten older. But now I don’t want to be ‘sort of dating’ someone. I don’t want to be ‘kinda hanging out’ with someone. I don’t want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.”
“Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Maybe this is just what living with an open wound is like, and all my pain and grief and fear are just spilling out of this hole in my chest and that's why I can't feel anything.”
Source: Entangled
“Maybe this is kind of cliche, but animals, well, dogs, are what I do for a living. One reason I like spending time with them so much is they seem to think people are really good. They live with us, and obey our rules, most of which make no sense to them. And the main reason they do it is because they like us. When I watch them, sometimes I'm so blow away by how enthusiastic they are about everything we do that I have to go out and buy them something squeaky or chewy. Just because I love proving to them that it's not a mistake to see the world as a great benevolent place. I hope one day to react to something with as much pure ecstasy as I see in Chuck's face every time I throw the ball. Sometimes he looks so happy, it reminds me of the way blind people smile way too big because they can't see themselves. And if none of this links to anything in you, well... I think you don't know who I am.”
Source: Walking in Circles Before Lying Down
“Maybe this is my life now, a series of bizarre meaningless moments all strung together.”
“Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.”
“Maybe this is necessary. Maybe there will be hope when Bush's bombs stop falling. But she cannot bring herself to say it, not when what happened to Babi and Mammy is happening to someone now in Afghanistan, not when some unsuspecting girl or boy back home has just been orphaned by a rocket as she was. Laila cannot bring herself to say it. It's hard to rejoice. It seems hypocritical, perverse.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns