M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”
“Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.”
“Maybe you just have those impromptu conversations, or where all of the sudden you're standing on the corner waiting to cross the street and you notice three people looking up and you look up with them. And you all smile at each other because you're seeing a little piece of a rainbow between two buildings, and that little rainbow and you all just shared a New York moment, and that's awesome, and then you keep on in your way.”
“Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.”
Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material
“Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.”
Source: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
“Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.”
“Maybe you know the monsters, Martin," Murphy said quietly. "But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it." She nodded at me and said, "Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.”
Source: Changes
“Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.”
Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
“Maybe you'll change
Abandon all your wicked ways
Make amends and start anew again
Maybe you'll see
All the wrongs you did to me
And start all over, start all over again.
Who am i kidding?
Now, lets not get overzealous here
Youre always been a huge piece of shit
If i could kill you i would
But it's frowned upon in all fifty states
Having said that, burn in Hell.”
“Maybe you'll express an opinion on a political issue and it will get noticed by that wrong person. Maybe you'll wake up to find that a company you once bought shoes from online was careless with security, and now your personal information is in the hands of anyone who bothers to look. Maybe someone who has a grudge against you is relentless enough to post and promote bogus information about you online—stuff that can never be erases. Maybe you're a member of a demographic that is constantly targeted—you're a woman, you're black, you're trans, or any combination of these or other marginalised groups—and someone who wants to get people like you off "their" internet decides to take it upon them to make your life hell. Online abuses target countless people every year for any number of arbitrary reasons.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“Maybe you'll find happiness if you try to look below anger, hate and jealousy.”
“Maybe you’ll prove me wrong. Perhaps one day, you’ll push back at me, making me feel something on your end for once. Because wishful thinking is another attribute of caring. The difference is that I don’t think you could ever force me to regret that one.”
“Maybe you misunderstood.”
“Maybe you have more enemies than you think.”
Source: The Dark Prince
“Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune”
“Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react in this considered way rather than that elemental way, to breathe evenly from the bottom of your stomach and to see your parents as equals, but within five minutes your intentions are blown to hell, and you're babbling and screaming in rage like an angry child.”
Source: The Buddha of Suburbia
“Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.”
“Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.”
“Maybe you're about to reveal your evil scheme and bend me to your will. Just so you know, I don't think it will be very hard to bend me to your will.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Maybe you’re always on an “even keel,” with no horrible lows but without any wonderful highs either. People who repress their feelings tend to repress the entire spectrum of emotions, not just one or two of them. If you’re the sort of person who tells others that “there’s no point in crying over spilt milk,” you may tend to deny your own feelings of loss.”
“Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Maybe you’re forgetting who saved your life,” Ringer said.
“Oh, kiss my ass.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.”
“Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.”
Source: In Paradise
“Maybe you’re looking for halos and wings when you should be looking for other things.”
Source: Waiting for Doggo
“Maybe you’re not breaking down.
Maybe you’re breaking through.”
“Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.”
“Maybe you’re not perfect, but you certainly are not unworthy. You are beautiful. A flower with a petal still unfurled does not lack in fragrance.”
Source: Soul Food And Instant Karma
“Maybe you’re right. I mean…how could I have known he was lying? Not like I know what it’s like to be loved. Nobody ever loved me,” he said, refusing to allow himself to cry.
[...]
"You do know what love looks like, darling,” Darian said, brushing a tear away from his lashes with his thumb. “It’s drawing hearts with flowers in a bathtub. It’s pretending you like oatmeal because the other person can’t eat anything else for a couple of weeks. It’s allowing someone to move everything in your greenhouse around just to see them smile proudly at the good job they’d done. It’s taking care of each other, spending time together, wanting to be with someone forever. You do know what it’s like to be loved, Tate, because I love you.”
Source: Heartwood
“Maybe you're right, Red. Maybe I am hateful. Maybe I ruined your life. Maybe I'm the devil, and the worst thing that ever happened to you, and a million other awful things... But did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster... I might be your soulmate, anyway?”
Source: Erasing Faith
“Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?”
Source: The Lady Loves to Strip
“Maybe you're starting to move on, my love. But to fully do it, you have to let the guilt go. Gabriel will always be an important part of your life. I don't even want to imagine how difficult it is to move on, but a new love always helps. I can bet you will find it in MacCraig's arms. He may be domineering and commanding, but everyone has flaws.”
Source: Trust: Betrayed
“Maybe you’re that ‘someone else’ whose job everything appears to be.”
“Maybe you’re worrying too much, maybe you’re not worrying enough. There is no right amount of worry when you’ve a newborn.”
“Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.”
Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave
“Maybe you really are a poet," I whisper.
He smiles softly. "Only a fool for you."
"Pretend?"
My voice is small, soft like the breeze blowing through my short hair.
"Never."
"None of it?" I ask quietly.
"Darling"-he smiles- "I have never had to pretend to want you.”
Source: Reckless
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“Maybe you should ask, “Whose pain, whose gain?”
“MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS!”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“Maybe you should be as fearless in love as you two are in battle.”
Source: Smoke Signal
“Maybe you should be the one to get naked for me. 'Breslin Cooper's Revealing Interview. Take a peek at the real ass inside those hot baseball pants.”
Source: Chasing Headlines
“Maybe you should begin proving yourself by showing that you don’t have to prove yourself.”
“Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Maybe you should finally give the girl Pop's number, and I don't know, be her friend."
"Just like that."
"It's friendship, Harley, not rocket science.”
Source: Edge of Instinct
“Maybe you should get rid of me,” I whisper onto his lips. “Never,” he says, kissing me once softly. “You’re mine for as long as you breathe.”
“Maybe you should... go.'
'Why? You seemed so insistent that I train you.'
'I can't concentrate with you around,' I admitted. 'And go... far. I can feel you from a room away.'
A suggestive curve shaped his lips.
I rolled my eyes. 'Why don't you just hide in one of those pocket realms for a bit.'
'It doesn't work like that. There's no air there.' I gave him a look to say he should definitely do it then, and he laughed. He jerked his chin at my tattoo. 'Give a shout down the bond if you get anything accomplished before breakfast.'
I frowned at the eye in my palm. 'What- literally shout at the tattoo?'
'You could try rubbing it on certain body parts and I might come faster.'
He vanished into nothing before I could hurl the candle at him.
Alone in the frost-gilded forest, I replayed his words and a quiet chuckle rasped out of me.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Maybe you should just admit that you're crazy about me," he said, leaning in to kiss her again.
"And why would you want me to do that?" she asked, still smiling.
"Because I'm playing for keeps, my little grasshopper.”
Source: Playing for Keeps
“Maybe you should just press the button”