Sake Quotes - Page 5

Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite