For Pete's Sake Quotes

#1. My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.

Mel Gibson

#2. Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Jan Karon

#3. For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.

Alyssa Day

#4. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals.

Mitt Romney

#5. This is fucking Washington! Who the hell has a below ground swimming pool? It rained 256 days of the year, for Pete's sake! On the off chance I found the blasted owners of it, I was going to put a bullet in their heads right then.

Eloise J. Knapp

#6. What kind of name is Paolo, anyway? I mean, this is America, for Pete's sake! YOUR NAME IS PAUL!!!

Meg Cabot

#7. I'm gonna miss you," Brianna says.
"I'm gonna miss you too, baby," Angelo murmurs.
For Pete's sake. It's not like she's leaving on a trip
around the world. She's only headed to homeroom.

Jodi Picoult

#8. You shouldn't let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That's just babble. It doesn't mean anything. None of you are going to die and you're obviously not dead. For Pete's sake.

Holly Black

#9. For Pete's sake, the girl went back to work three months after Jacob was born. It wasn't like having a baby would be that big an inconvenience for her.

Liane Moriarty

#10. The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

Pope Francis

#11. It dawned upon everybody that Aggie, at perhaps a hundred and sixty pounds and five feet nine and a half, was, as Beth later said, 'dynamite in the physical culture department.

Philip Wylie

#12. I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

Cat Stevens

#13. Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.

Tegan Quin

#14. That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

Barack Obama

#15. I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.

Yiyun Li

#16. The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

Joyce Meyer

#17. Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.

John Knowles

#18. Indeed, with iAm out of the picture, she was prepared to be celibate. Who else would she want, anyway? She had met her match - it was even decreed in the stars.
That he didn't want her?
Well, one's fate was not another's, no matter the emotions involved -

J.R. Ward

#19. Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#20. But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

Sally Kohn

#21. And, though reading may not at first blush seem like an act of creation, in a deep sense it is. Without the enthusiastic reader, who is really the author's counterpart and very often his most secret rival, a book would die.

Henry Miller

#22. If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

Pete Waterman

#23. I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

Pete Wentz

#24. Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

Suzanne Collins

#25. My children ain't the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I'd love myself, too.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez