Sake Quotes

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

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.

No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

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.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

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.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.