“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

Source: Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.
Maxim 118: (p. 66)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”

Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest

It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Also quoted in "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8642558.stm at BBC News (25 April 2010). <br class="br">Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) <br class="br">Context: If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. … We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.