Sake Quotes

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery.

We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

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.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

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.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake." "And yours," he said before he could stop himself.

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

It would be crazy for me to come out now talking about selling drugs and doing all this stuff I never did for the sake of A&R or records or trying to keep the street buzz or whatever.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

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.