Sake Quotes
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If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
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I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
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When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!).
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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
