M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.”
“Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.”
Source: Before I Die
“Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.”
“Maybe you should stop tagging," Castor says.
Ajax's face tilts down, his expression echoing a difficult thought. "I can't. Not yet."
"Jax," Pallas begins, like he's gearing up to give his brother a
lecture.
"I will-," Ajax interrupts. "But not just yet. There's one more thing I have to do."
"What's that?" Castor asks.
Ajax smiles. "I promised someone I'd paint the sky.”
Source: Scions
“Maybe you should tell me what you really think.
- If I'm honest, I thought you'd make something of yourself.
Meaning?
- You were never satisfied. Always wanted more. Another book. Another piece of cake. Didn't want me to say goodnight.
That's all children.
- You were different. You know it. You wanted to leave Washford. You left Washford. You wanted to go to a fancy school. You got into one. You married up. You decided to become a lawyer. Well, okay. What happens now? Having a baby and going to school and working is hard. I should know. But that's not my worry for you. My worry is that you *won't* do that. That you'll give up your plan. You'll just be some man's wife. Some baby's mother. That's not the Emily I know.”
Source: Ordinary Love
“Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.”
“Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.”
“Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.”
“Maybe you think someone doesn't have a lot on their plate compared to you.
But maybe their plate is smaller than yours and doesn't have a lot of room to begin with.
Or maybe their plate is paper, and their flimsy paper plate can't hold as much as your sturdy ceramic plate can.”
“Maybe you think you’re just one person. What you do doesn’t really matter. You can read a few tweets or blog posts and then publicly render your judgment of a total stranger. Who cares? You’re just one tiny voice in a huge ocean. But the thing about tiny voices is that when they band together they can be incredibly loud. Uncomfortably loud. Sometimes that’s a good thing—a strong thing. A group of voices can wake people up to the truth. But a group of voices can be a bad thing too, because we’re not always right. Or even when we are right, sometimes the things we do to each other still aren’t okay.”
Source: This is How it Happened
“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
“Maybe you've allowed your negative voices to undermine your self-esteem, to hinder your work, or to keep you locked in unhealthy relationships. If so it's time to tell those voices you've heard their propaganda, and you're not going to take it anymore. Dismiss them, and you will be the only one holding the pen as you write the story of your life." from Happiness Becomes You”
“Maybe you've gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that's a great way of thinking...for selfish jerks.
If we actually care about people other than ourselves, we can't leave our problems behind and never return. If we don't take the freedom we've experienced and try to bring it to others, we are not becoming people worth becoming.”
Source: Guerrilla Lovers: Changing the World With Revolutionary Compassion
“Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the...
2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't understand. "This is so not our job," it says. So it just starts hitting random buttons, filling you with strange and unpleasant sensations, and calls the...
3. Office of Confusion and Panic, where there is always someone ready to hop on the phone the moment it rings. This office is at least willing to take some action. The Office of Confusion and Panic loves hitting buttons.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Maybe you’ve noticed what I’ve noticed, and thought it strange, or dismissed it as youthful foolishness or that you were missing some critical piece of information that would reveal itself with age and wisdom – that is: every single teacher believes feverishly in the importance of the content of their class, and furthermore, believes that their assessment of you in their class is a direct measure of your capacity for future success, while simultaneously not having a clue as to the content of virtually any other discipline in the school. They will boldly state things like, That’s math, I’m an English teacher or That’s literature, I’m a biology teacher, practically admitting out loud that nothing learned in school is important (except, of course, the course they are teaching).”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
“Maybe you've thought that as a Christian you have to smile and pretend to be okay when someone asks you how you are doing. Perhaps you think that if you're grieving, then you're dishonoring God. This isn't so.”
Source: Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
“Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“Maybe you want to believe that every other guy is just like you, because that means that you don’t have to worry about the way you are.”, Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
“Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
Source: The Traitor
“Maybe you were never actually lonely for other people. All along, maybe you were lonely for the earth.”
Source: Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust
“Maybe you were telling the truth, maybe it was you who brought me to Earth. But I didn't ask to come, and I don't owe you for the favor!”
Source: Hellboy Omnibus, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
“Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.”
“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.”
“Maybe you will be able to rebuild everything you have lost. But time, my friend, is always ticking. And remember, no matter what you do, you will never be able to win it back again.”
Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
“Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.”
“Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.”
“Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through”
“Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun.”
“Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back.”
“Maybe you'll take the cash out. So a credit card company or a bank that goes into the business of saying we're going to be the broker, we're going to sell you a mortgage that you're going to be able to pay off, we're going to help you reduce your credit card debt, we're going to help you save for retirement, we're going to put you into mutual funds that have low fees rather than high fees.”
“Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.”
“Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.”
“Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.”
“Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.”
Source: Unbreak My Heart
“Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.”
“Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.”
“Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.”
Source: War of the Fae: Book 1 (The Changelings)
“Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.”
“Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.”
Source: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires
“Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.”
“Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.”
“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”
“Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.”
“Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean
Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen.”
“Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.”
Source: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
“Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.”
Source: The Bestseller Job
“Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?”
Source: In the City of Shy Hunters
“Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.”
“Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.”