M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
Source: 5 Centimeters per Second
“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.”
“Maybe we've both had our lives ruined by men only to have our children grow up blaming us for it.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
Source: The Notebook
“Maybe we want to keep A.I. to the level of a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old adolescent, rather than some fully maxed-out artificial intelligence that becomes 10,000 times smarter than us in just a matter of years. Who knows what could happen? It could be a very dangerous scenario.”
“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.”
Source: Smart Girls Get What They Want
“Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules.”
“Maybe we weren’t meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way.”
“Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.”
“Maybe we will drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.”
He isn’t listening to me, but I don’t expect him to. He never did.”
Source: Wild Dark Shore
“Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear.”
“Maybe we will meet again,
Older wiser and less regret.”
“Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life.”
Source: Bossypants
“Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.”
“Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.”
“Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.”
“Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.”
“Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.”
“Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.”
“Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.”
“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”
Source: Shanghai Girls
“Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere”
“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.”
“Maybe we're stuck with who we are.”
“Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”
“Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.”
Source: Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories
“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
Source: A Nevil Shute omnibus
“Maybe we've grown out of each other.”
“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
“Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data.”
“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”
“Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely.”
Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.”
“Maybe what a son evoked in a father was different than what a daughter evoked?
It would be all right. She was only afraid that when time passed, it would not be these trips to the library he would remember, or his eagerness to learn how she made roti in the kitchen with him as her helper, but how upset he would become when Rafiq scolded him.”
Source: A Place for Us
“Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.”
“Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.”
“Maybe what I'd thought was my superpower was actually just this: I was finally able to see that nothing was simply good or bad, that everyone contained multitudes, and that I, like anyone, was a beautiful, swirling, chaotic galaxy of all the things that had ever happened to me.”
Source: The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
“Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take”
“Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.”
“Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.”
Source: The Selection (The Selection, Book 1)
“Maybe what it means to belong to a city is that, if it could flee – the city, I mean – you might be one of the things it would grab in the night to carry with it so it could remember its name.”
Source: Yr Dead
“Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.”
Source: Losing Julia
“Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time”
Source: Immortal Beloved
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”
“Maybe what we take to be real is just a dream and the dream is the real reality of life. Who dreams while we sleep?”
“Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.”
Source: Winter Moon: A Novel
“Maybe when I’d wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn’t believe that.”
Source: The Beacon