Sake Quotes - Page 18

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up.

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

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).

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.

Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.