Sake famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.
-- Adam LaVorgna -
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
-- Adrian Lyne -
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
-- Agnes Smedley -
That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
-- Alberto Manguel -
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
-- Aleister Crowley -
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
-- Alexander Pope -
The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.
-- Alice Englert -
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
-- Alice Meynell -
I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
-- Antonin Scalia -
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
-- Aristotle -
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
-- Aristotle -
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
-- Aristotle -
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.
-- Arsene Wenger -
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
-- Assata Shakur -
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."
-- Athenaeus -
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
-- B. F. Skinner -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
-- Barack Obama -
Yes,†Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’â€. “For God’s sake…†“Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
-- Barry Lyga -
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
-- Ben Jonson -
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
-- Ben Shahn -
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)
-- Benjamin Constant -
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
-- Benjamin Wiker -
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.
-- Beverley Nichols -
The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.
-- Bilal Philips -
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
-- Bjork -
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
-- Bob Black -
I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.
-- Bobby Sherman -
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?
-- Boris Vian -
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
-- Brigit of Kildare -
That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.
-- Byron Katie -
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
-- Caroline Myss -
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
-- Carroll Quigley -
I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.
-- Cat Deeley -
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
-- Chaim Potok -
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
-- Charles Dickens -
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
-- Charles Fitzgeoffrey -
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?
-- Charles Spurgeon -
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.
-- Charles Stanley -
What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.
-- Charles Wright -
I never insert myself into situations where I am completely blind or don't have a single clue about what's being discussed. I don't to be an impostor and just helping for the sake of helping. If I am going to help somebody, I want it to be valuable. And if they don't follow my advice, then they are a frigging idiot. I'm joking.
-- Charlie Sheen -
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
-- Chris Hayes -
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
-- Christopher Lasch -
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that
-- Cillian Murphy -
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
-- Clark Kerr -
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
-- Cleveland Amory -
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
-- Criss Jami -
Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Unless you are honestly convinced that the thing in question will bring glory to God, then don't do it.
-- Curtis Hutson -
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
-- Dalton Trumbo -
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
-- Daniel Schorr -
Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
-- Dannel Malloy -
Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,†he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?†“It’s said to have fallen out of the sky.†“They always do,†Beldin said. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
-- David Eddings -
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
-- David Foreman -
Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.
-- David Giuntoli -
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
-- David Hockney -
As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.
-- David Levithan -
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.
-- David Levithan -
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
-- David McCallum -
What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.
-- David Ortiz -
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...
-- Dean Karnazes -
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.
-- Deborah Lupton -
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
-- Denis Thatcher -
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
-- Ed Miliband -
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
-- Edward Steichen -
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
-- Emma Donoghue -
I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
-- Emma Lazarus
