Sake Quotes - Page 16

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.

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.

Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them."

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.