Sake Quotes · Page 23

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

— Daniel Schorr

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

— Jimi Hendrix

I'm the type of person who doesn't do television just for the sake of it.

— Gino D'Acampo

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

— Leonhard Euler

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

— Judy Davis

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

— Mahatma Gandhi

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of…

— Albert Einstein

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact…

— V. S. Pritchett

If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake…

— Sarada Devi

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been…

— Mas Oyama

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80.…

— Bob Costas

We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love…

— Jalaja Bonheim

The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the…

— Dada Vaswani

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is…

— Orson Welles

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication…

— Ben Hunt

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to…

— Kami Garcia

Remember a few years ago when they left Bea Arthur out of the death reel at the Oscars? Bea Arthur! How did…

— Joan Rivers

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but…

— Margaret Fuller

If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish…

— Martin Luther

What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as…

— Silouan the Athonite

Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you.…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at…

— J. G. Ballard

In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced…

— Joseph Addison

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

— Jim Fowler

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

— Selma Lagerlöf

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

— Anton Chekhov

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

— Martin Buber

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

— Anthony Daniels

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

— Joseph Stalin

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!

— Emma Bunton

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

— Skylar Astin

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

— Larry Wall

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

— Confucius

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

— Gordon Ramsay

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

— Steven Pressfield

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

— Tracey Ullman

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

— Mark Twain

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

— David Eddings