M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.”
“Maybe we can explain the fact that a boat does not sink even though it is loaded enough to sink, with the existential resistance of a person who does not fall to the ground even though he is loaded enough to collapse to the ground!”
“Maybe we can help. Where are you from? I've never seen you around here before. And, how did you get that cut? Where are you staying?” He shook his head and giggled. “Are you the police? You ask a lot of questions Phoenix.” “No. I just ... never mind.” I wanted to know more about him. The way those sparkly green eyes gazed at me. The way his dimples sunk deep into his cheeks, as he smiled and said my name with his deep voice.”
“Maybe we can set her free and find out."
Maybe.
"Maybe we can use her against him.”
Maybe.”
Source: Winds of Strife
“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.”
“Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest.
...
'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.”
Source: The Love That Split the World
“Maybe we can twist a little fate and re-write the cards in our hands, I never liked rules anyway.”
“Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.”
“Maybe we can use this Shakespearean triad of lunacy, lover and poet as a tool to propose a classification of events based on the Lacanian train of imaginary, Symbolic and Real: a lunatic dwells in the imaginary dimension, confusing reality and imagination; a lover identifies the beloved person with the absolute Thing in a symbolic short-circuit between signifier and signified which nonetheless maintains the gap that for ever separates them (the lover knows very well that, in reality, his or her beloved is an ordinary person with all his or her failures and weaknesses); a poet makes a phenomenon emerge against the background of the void of the Real.”
Source: Event
“Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”
“Maybe we communicate with ducks not through words, but with body language. Maybe the word quack doesn’t mean everything—or even anything. Maybe all that matters is what our body says when we converse with a duck.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.”
“maybe we
could just kiss,
for hours,
like it’s everything,
like it’s art,
with no other
intention
but this”
“maybe we
could just lay here
and i could just kiss your skin,
until you feel this light,
until beautiful settles easy on you,
until all that love in you
feels like home”
“Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.”
“Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck?" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal.”
Source: Sunrise Point
“Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.”
“Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.”
Source: Yanni in Words
“Maybe we do go home, finally.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“Maybe we don't need to correct some terrible deficiency. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit and a wise heart.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Maybe we don't want someone who heals our heart;
sometimes we just need a person who accepts it.”
“Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.”
“Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.”
“Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“Maybe we feel meaning only when we deal with something bigger. Perhaps we hope that someone else, especially someone important to us, will ascribe value to what we've produced? Maybe we need the illusion that our work might one day matter to many people. That it might be of some value in the big, broad world out there [...]? Most likely it is all of these. But fundamentally, I think that almost any aspect of meaning [...] can be sufficient to drive our behaviour. As long as we are doing something that is somewhat connected to our self image, it can fuel our motivation and get us to work much harder.”
Source: The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
“Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.”
“Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.”
“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection
“Maybe we human beings became energy sensitive because of something bigger, a vibrational shift to the entire planet that began to build over the centuries, accelerated even more rapidly starting in the 1980’ s, then clicked into place on that fateful day in 2012. After that once-in-an-eon change, all of humanity shifted into this Age of Awakening.”
Source: The New Strong: Stop Fixing Yourself—And Actually Accelerate Your Personal Growth!
“Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.”
“Maybe we kiss a little
And you push back a little
A little later then
I start to giggle
Does he like me or does he like me not?
He takes notice but would never linger.”
“Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.”
Source: For All You Have Left
“Maybe we leave imprints of ourselves on those we love when we leave. An outline of who they were that informs who we become.”
Source: Before We Break
“Maybe we like to think different, but the world leaves us long before we leave it...for good.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“Maybe we’ll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you’re interested, that is.”
She glanced away. “I could think about that.”
He buried his face in her neck. “Think fast”
Source: Wild Man Creek
“Maybe we’ll evolve to a point where fear as an experience is no longer instinctual, but rather an emotion we use to enrich our understanding of why our human ancestors killed each other when they could have loved each other. One day we’ll be holding hands instead of grudges; we’ll eliminate our territorial circuits and know what love is. One day we’ll be holding hands instead of M-16s.”
Source: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure
“Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'”
“Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do.”
“Maybe we need learn that to ‘leave well enough alone’ is to ‘leave’ a situation ‘well’ because we ‘kept our hands to ourselves’ while keeping ‘our greed in our hands.”
“Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that aspect, and what that might mean if you were interpreting. You don't have to believe it; maybe you could draw a metaphor from it.”
“Maybe we need the chemistry of emotions to explore our will-power and go beyond the land of mood-swings. This is the shortest path to adaptation.”
“Maybe we need thousands of smaller heroes every day every day instead of the occasional big one.”
Source: The Athena Protocol
“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”
“Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.”
“Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.”
“Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any number of populations who already cross that divide, and we could probably point to several existing states that belong exclusively neither to one category nor to the other. Do we use these terms to designate geographical realities, geopolitical ones, or perhaps sites of power, exploitation, orientalism that move through space and time in ways that have to be tracked historically.”
“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”
“Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.”