The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord… — Mehdi Dibaj Copy Share Image
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
