
“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”
Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”
Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
“Anyone who wants to be next to you must know how to add, not remove.”
Original: Chi vuole esserti accanto deve saper aggiungere, non togliere.
Source: prevale.net
“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”
Source: City of Glass
“Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.”
In late January 2016, as quoted in "The Obama Doctrine" by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
2016
Though Keillor has been quoted on the internet and in print as having made this or a similar remark, such expressions have been made by others, and may have originated with Billy Sunday, who is quoted as having said "Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!" in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
Disputed
Variant: Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Source: Dreamsnake (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 205)
“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 39