Sake Quotes

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

We are here for the sake of others

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

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.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

I'm romantic to some degree, if I really like somebody. I'm more romantic if there's someone that I like than I am a romantic just for romantics sake.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'