The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our… — Ronnie Coleman Copy Share Image
Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot,… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain,… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ… — William James Copy Share Image
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
