Sake Quotes
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.
Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.
Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.
I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.
For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.
What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.