Sake Quotes - Page 19

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

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.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.

He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.