Sake Quotes

• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

  

  Epictetus
  • Practice
  • Sake
  • Little Things

• If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Success
  • Heaven
  • Enjoy

• [John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Views

• The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Desire
  • Passionate
  • Affirmation

• Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reputation
  • Sake
  • Sacrificed

• I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Music
  • Records
  • Selling

• A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Speak
  • Line
  • Sake

• If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Energy
  • Humanity
  • Sake

• Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • God Love

• The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cause
  • Sake
  • Dearest

• There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Time
  • Country
  • Question

• Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Culture
  • Aim
  • Sake

• Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Jobs
  • Self
  • Sake

• And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

  

  William Morris
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Deeds

• Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Worst

• Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Glory

• Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Grandchildren
  • Sake
  • Hillary Brown

• For my sake, the entire world was created.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • World
  • Sake

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

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Help
  • Want

• Well, for heaven’s sake, don’t leave her unattended. You never know what she might do.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Know
  • Sake
  • Unattended

• For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Courage
  • Commitment

• Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • God
  • Funny
  • Sake

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

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Sake
  • Paragraph

• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Higher
  • Plants
  • Climb

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