Sake Quotes - Page 10

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

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

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.