Sake Quotes · Page 17

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

— C. S. Lewis

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

— Barack Obama

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to…

— Selma Blair

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

— Ezra Furman

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.

— Rebecca Hall

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.”

— William James

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the…

— Barbara Tuchman

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is…

— William Butler Yeats

The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism.…

— Rosanne Cash

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best…

— Uwem Akpan

Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These…

— Josiah Bartlett

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…

— Jamake Highwater

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

So far, I haven't met anyone, and with an average fifteen-hour workday schedule, I hardly think it's probable... For the sake of…

— Raymond Burr

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…

— John Herschel

I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as…

— Kevin Hart

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and…

— Aristotle

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet:…

— W. H. Auden

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

— Erwin Rommel

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

— Jane Austen

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

— Henry Van Dyke

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

— Leontyne Price

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

— Rodney Mullen

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

— Alexandra Bracken

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to…

— Jacqueline Carey

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

— Paul Klee

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

— Seth MacFarlane

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

— Walter Scott

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

— Heidi Baker

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Samuel Richardson