M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.”
Source: The Bite of Silence
“Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country in the world, the United States, was once a colony. By contrast, Ethiopia, Liberia, Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan were never colonies, but they are home to the world’s poorest people.”
“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worse than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.”
Source: Blindsight
“Maybe your greatest failure is actually believing that you're a failure.”
“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.”
“Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.”
“Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin any.”
“Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?”
“Maybe your soul’s high tide is God turning the page of your waters — to teach you how to swim toward your own freedom.”
Source: Reliquary of the Soul
“Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.”
Source: Fly Fishing Small Streams
“Maybe your stay in Hellgate was too short, Matthias. There's always more to lose.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?”
Source: Beta
“Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?”
“Maybe your 'Words' are false, but your 'Eyes' never!”
Source: Beyond Human: Journey Towards A.I World
“Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.”
Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
“Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.”
Source: Out of this World
“Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.”
“Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.”
“Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring”
“Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!”
“Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.”
“Maybe, although my heart
is a kitten of butter,
I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside”
“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.”
“Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.”
“Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.”
“Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.”
“Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.”
Source: Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water
“Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.”
“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”
“Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.”
“Maybe, it takes a brave man to be with a woman like me. In relationships, I don't look the other way, and dim my voice when I have something to say. I learned that I simply don't do well with huge egos, for I always see myself as his equal.”
“Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.”
“Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.”
“Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!”
“Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story. The pain, the hurt. They raised their children. Some were working as maids, but when they left those kitchens, those homes, they made it to the mass meetings. And they put their bodies on the lines, also.”
“Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.”
Source: Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel
“Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.”
“Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.”
“Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to”
“Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.”
“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”
“Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma’at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)
“Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.”
“Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...”
“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!”
“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”
Source: This Lullaby