Sake Quotes · Page 14

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

— Jacques Derrida

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life…

— Pete Wentz

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and…

— Erwin McManus

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

— Harry Redknapp

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

— Victor Cousin

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

— Peter Drucker

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

— Dov Davidoff

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best…

— Sarah Fielding

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an…

— Martin Luther

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to…

— Jeff Goldblum

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First…

— Connie Sellecca

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose…

— Saint Augustine

Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not…

— Isaac of Nineveh

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through…

— Pindar

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or…

— David Hackett Fischer

Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree…

— Francis Schaeffer

If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good…

— Orson Scott Card

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it…

— Haruki Murakami

And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog,…

— Rick Elice

“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights…

— Barack Obama

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

— Ben Jonson

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

— Alan Hirsch

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

— Alice Childress

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

— Henrik Ibsen

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

— Paul McCartney

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

— William Penn

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

— R. C. Sproul

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

— Anonymous

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

— Christopher Plummer

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Marcus Aurelius

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

— Frederick Lenz

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

— Nicholas Culpeper