Sake Quotes · Page 8

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

— Jenny Holzer

I don't want to do random work, just for the sake of it.

— Kunal Kapoor

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

— John Donne

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

— Carl Froch

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake

— Thomas More

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

— John Henrik Clarke

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

— Sophie Swetchine

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

— Agnes Smedley

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for…

— Ansel Adams

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and…

— Dorothy Parker

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving…

— Bilal Philips

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

— Herbie Hancock

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

— Anonymous

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want…

— Ayn Rand

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in…

— Frederick Buechner

When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork,…

— Michel Martin

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is…

— Brion James

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up…

— Oswald Chambers

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best…

— Sarah Fielding

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to…

— Eva Figes

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an…

— Martin Luther

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend…

— Anonymous

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of…

— Jacques Derrida

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda…

— Gregory Maguire

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a…

— Meister Eckhart

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising…

— James Madison

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

— Veronica Roth

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.”

— William James

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

— Ezra Furman

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

— Erwin Rommel

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

— Winston Churchill

We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake

— Reinhard Bonnke