Sake Quotes
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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.
Kingsley Amis
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Confucius
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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
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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
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He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.
Johannes Kepler
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Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.
Bill Bartmann
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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
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Barbara Branden
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Freya Stark
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Thomas Hardy
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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
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Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgeoffrey
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
Blaise Pascal
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
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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
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
P. C. Cast
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
Chris Hogan
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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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
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
Plato
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Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.
Ephrem the Syrian
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The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.
K. P. Yohannan