To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image