Sake Quotes

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

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.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

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

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

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

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

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

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.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

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.

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

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

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

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

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.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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.

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

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

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

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.

Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Dont try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake. - Break

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

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

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

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

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.

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

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

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.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

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

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.