Sake Quotes
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.
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.'
If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.
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.
Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.
We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.