We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. — Nicholas Culpeper Copy Share Image
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have never lied on anyone to disrepute or sully their reputation for the sake of revenge. — Kenya Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through… — Pindar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake? — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
I'm not going to blow up just for the sake of it, because it's on TV. That's not the issue. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
