Sake Quotes - Page 11

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.

In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.

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 goodness.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.