Sake Quotes
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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 -
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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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn -
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.
Bill Bartmann -
What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin Luther -
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
Marilyn Monroe -
I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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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 -
Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.
Pam Jenoff -
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
William S. Burroughs -
It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.
Colin Montgomerie -
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust -
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
Chris Hogan -
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 -
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
Henrik Ibsen -
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
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I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.
Cat Deeley -
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
William Shatner -
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More