It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain,… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die. — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but… — Peter Claver Copy Share Image
One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation… — Michael Ironside Copy Share Image
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training. — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — Plato Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
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