Sake Quotes - Page 24

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.