Sake Quotes
1672 Sake quotes by 1179 unique authors
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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life,…
— Rick Warren
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Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
— Victor Hugo
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The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and…
— Jasper Fforde
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but…
— Martine Leavitt
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
— Charles Dickens
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Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and…
— Shannon Hale
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with…
— Khaled Hosseini
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He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the…
— Neal Stephenson
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The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound…
— Che Guevara
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for…
— Meister Eckhart
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Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want…
— Marguerite Duras
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Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd…
— James Patterson
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Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot…
— Harper Lee
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She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of…
— Virginia Woolf
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Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.
— Nora Roberts
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).…
— Abraham Maslow
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Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland
— Jacqueline Carey
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It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted…
— Ian Mcewan
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In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
— Benjamin Franklin
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He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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