Sake Quotes · Page 20

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

— Carl Froch

I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours!

— Dante Alighieri

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of…

— William Hazlitt

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

— Anonymous

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

— Peter Kreeft

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

— Rajneesh

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury…

— Vladimir Potanin

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some…

— Louisa May Alcott

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for…

— Ansel Adams

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and…

— Dorothy Parker

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving…

— Bilal Philips

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,…

— Abraham Lincoln

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not…

— Sallust

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction…

— Deborah Lupton

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors.…

— Peter Lynch

...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of…

— Mairead Corrigan

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal,…

— Earl Weaver

And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this…

— Dennis Miller

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,…

— Ayn Rand

The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term…

— Rand Paul

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is…

— Bill Johnson

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

— Vivienne Westwood

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities...

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

— Martin Luther

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

— Baal Shem Tov

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

— Janeane Garofalo

“Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

— Oscar Wilde

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

— John Gourley

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

— Marilyn Monroe

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— Moses Finley

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

— Anonymous

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

— Epictetus