Top 100 Quotes About Sake
#1. [T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire itself. Only then will you be free to say what you please. [F]or God's sake stop that irrelevant chitchat.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. Math teaches us chaos or order, for god sake?
Deyth Banger
#3. We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott
#4. Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
Tim Burton
#5. Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
Timothy Keller
#6. There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.
Jacqueline Winspear
#7. I've learned that unfeeling, bloodsucking men like you need to reduce women to manageable cliches, even to destroy them, for the sake of control.
Hanif Kureishi
#8. Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love
for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
John Piper
#9. If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy
#11. It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour ...
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.
Paul Zindel
#13. The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#14. It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
#15. Don't pray for the sake of prayer, pray only because you want to be God
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Roxy had once called him the Pussy Whisperer, and it had kind of stuck. For the sake of brevity, though, they simply called him P-Dub.
Tessa Bailey
#17. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#18. Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake - really suffering - I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.
Sarah Vowell
#19. But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch
#20. Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
Dalton Trumbo
#21. Dimka said angrily: "Why the hell do you risk everything for the sake of an empty protest?" "We live in a brutal tyranny," she said. "We have to do something to keep hope alive." "We
Ken Follett
#22. We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.
Jalaja Bonheim
#24. Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.
Gordon S. Wood
#25. The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery ... peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.
Jamake Highwater
#26. There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
Cory Booker
#27. God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#28. For heavens sake, if you haven't gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.
Tim Bray
#29. Another mistake will be to practice for the sake of the joy you find in it. Actually, when your practice is involved in a feeling of joy, it is not in very good shape either. Of course this is not poor practice, but compared to the true practice it is not so good.
Shunryu Suzuki
#30. There's no more happiness," Leo said roughly. "There's no peace in any damn corner of my life. She took it all with her. For pity's sake, Amelia ... go meddle in someone else's affairs, and leave me the hell alone.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
Karl Kraus
#32. So, I soberly laid my last plan
To extinguish the man.
Round his creep-hole, with never a break
Ran my fires for his sake;
Over-head, did my thunder combine
With my under-ground mine:
Till I looked from my labour content
To enjoy the event.
Robert Browning
#33. There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
Geri Halliwell
#34. Obama said they've had some glitches with the Affordable Care website. I'll tell you something. If you order a pair of pants online and they send you the wrong color, that's a glitch. This is like a Carnival cruise, for God's sake!
David Letterman
#35. For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
Larry Wall
#36. It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.
Ken Ham
#37. My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.
Rosemary Mahoney
#38. O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
#39. It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
Ian McEwan
#40. The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
William James
#41. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.
E. O. Wilson
#42. Oh, for God's sake, Roen! Stop with the Superman crap!"
"Not Superman. Mer. Man ... Superman is fictional. Mermen are real.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#43. Well," said Knightley, chuckling, "You have given me the perfect test by which to judge any future infatuations; if I am willing to dance in public for her sake, it must be true love.
Barbara Cornthwaite
#44. Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So
Robin S. Sharma
#45. There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.
Rodney Mullen
#46. Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.
Amanda Crew
#47. Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
Mark Twain
#48. It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#49. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#50. [29]The only fruitful relation to human beings - particularly to the weak among them - is love, that is, the will to enter into and to keep community with them. God did not hold human beings in contempt but became human for their sake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#51. We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
Myles Munroe
#52. Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
Kenneth Grahame
#53. The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
Seneca The Younger
#54. Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?
Krystal Sutherland
#55. I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.
Jonathan Lethem
#56. We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Alice Walker
#57. People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.
Robert Masello
#58. All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#60. Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
Kathleen Wynne
#61. If the lines are even, then we pick the line that has the least scary people in it."
"Jesus Christ." Elle heard Nero say.
"For fuck's sake," Amo chimed in.
"Motherfuckers," Vincent added.
Sarah Brianne
#62. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.
Virat Kohli
#63. I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Mehdi Dibaj
#64. Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Max Jacob
#65. For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
Moby
#66. Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Thomas Hardy
#67. Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.
Cassandra Clare
#69. People are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form.
Nikki Rowe
#70. For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.
Gena Showalter
#71. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov
#72. All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.
Khalil
#73. Clovis,' Nico growled, 'for the gods' sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!
Rick Riordan
#74. Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe ... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.
David Icke
#75. I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#76. Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."
"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.
Cassandra Clare
#77. As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
Juliet Marillier
#78. It almost looked like slow motion. The bag ripped and three pregnancy tests along with a pamphlet on safe sex and one on gonorrhea landed on the front seat with Holiday and Burnett.
Burnett looked down, gasped, and then looked up at Kylie. "For God's sake!" He muttered.
C.C. Hunter
#79. It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#80. Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.
P.C. Cast
#81. For one brief, the great black dog reared onto its hind legs and placed its front paws on Harry's shoulders, but Mrs. Weasley shoved Harry away toward the train door hissing, For heaven's sake act more like a dog, Sirius!
J.K. Rowling
#82. Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something.
Majorie Hillis
#83. Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
Mary Street
#85. I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#86. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#87. Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
Park Dietz
#88. Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?
Suman Pokhrel
#89. I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.
Drew Goddard
#90. I might be bluffing, you miserable, vomitous mass!" Bran yelled. Oh, for heaven's sake. Really? He's quotin' The Princess Bride?
Julie Ann Walker
#91. I don't need all those cocks flying around my face, for God's sake.
Kimber White
#92. A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.
Plutarch
#93. It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
Dwight Schultz
#94. I'm not into power for the sake of it.
Helen Clark
#95. Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
#96. Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
Thomas Merton
#97. 2And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been highly exaltedb for the sake of his people Israel.
Anonymous
#98. Oh! for Thy mercies' sake, tell me, O Lord my God, what Thou art unto me.
Augustine Of Hippo
#99. Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
Richard Smalley
#100. Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open.
William S. Burroughs
