Sake Quotes
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
Selma Lagerlof -
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Confucius
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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.
Rene Descartes -
The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.
K. P. Yohannan -
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
George Bernard Shaw -
Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
Plato -
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
William Hazlitt -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.
Jasper Fforde -
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust -
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
Jim Gaffigan -
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
Aristotle
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I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong. You should not talk about Indian people," and the Indian people are over in the audience like, "I thought that joke was hilarious." That is so weird. Then why are you getting mad? You're burning unnecessary calories. You're getting made for the sake of getting mad. I don't understand it.
Brad Williams -
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
Blaise Pascal -
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
Billy Lawrence -
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.
Ryan Adams
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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
Vittorio Alfieri -
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi -
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.
Miguel de Unamuno