Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with… — Thomas Steinbeck 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
'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure.… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the… — Paul Celan 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
When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and… — Alison Doody Copy Share Image
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for… — Bocafloja 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
For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume 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
As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 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
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
