Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
