Quotes of: May Keyword

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

The Peter Principle

If by ‘foe’ you mean a brutal killer, then I suppose I’d fall into the ‘friend’ category,” I replied cynically. “Although in your case, we may have to find a secret option number three.

Proximity

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

A Perfumed Scorpion

Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

If you do nothing more in life do what you love. It may not make you rich, but it will always make you happy.

Racheal Awakened

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

Time Enough for Love

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

The Terror

She said she loved me, and I didn’t believe it for a minute. Maybe 59 seconds, but not a whole minute. I may be gullible, but I’m not without an accurate way to measure time.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My love may be invisible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t taste it. (It tastes like a sonic boom, only not as bitter).

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…

The Three Sisters

I’m not a firefighter—I’m a firefly fighter. My bravery may come in small flashes, but I am sure it doesn’t go unnoticed by lustful women and campers everywhere.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Hope is a very strange thing, Constance Thyme, and something I haven’t had much of, as late. Yet all the signs lead me to believe there may be some left in the world for me, after all.

Trusting Thyme

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

I do not want to sleep for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star for fear I may never know how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

If you ask me a multiple part question, and half my answers are yes and half are no, I may just average them together and give you a definitive and vague maybe.

This Book Has No Title

People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941

In Times Like These

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse