Sake Quotes
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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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Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
Vittorio Alfieri
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.
K. P. Yohannan
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What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin Luther
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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
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
Blaise Pascal
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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
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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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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
Plato
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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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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We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Seth MacFarlane
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
Ernesto Cardenal
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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?
Haruki Murakami
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel de Unamuno