Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it,… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been… — Adam LaVorgna Copy Share Image
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
