Sake Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Sake

Sake Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Sake quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. — Criss Jami

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind! — Charles Dickens

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. — Augustine Of Hippo

I won't remain in a marriage where you refuse to trust me, to take some chances for my sake.
Abigail Mercer — Sabrina Jeffries

For crap's sake: the holy-grail scene of the world's most ridiculous, implausible ship, and I was holding my breath with the rest of the room. — J.C. Lillis

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good. — James McGreevey

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth. — Peter Thiel

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson

We have reached a stage where we often pursue growth for growth's sake, a condition that in medical terminology would simply be called cancer. — Frederic Laloux

If we are kind for the sake of humanity; why we are so kind to good-looking people? — M.F. Moonzajer

Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee. — John Scalzi

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings. — Aimee Bender

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase

Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance. — Archibald Marwizi

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. — Douglas Adams

Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession. — Jane Austen

Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace. — Ayana Mathis

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. — D.H. Lawrence

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new. — Jeff Bezos

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world. — John Corey Whaley

Today a potato, a tomato, some wheat, lettuce, rice, a banana, and blueberries lost their lives for my sake. — Gregg Krech

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. — John D. Rockefeller

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want
for God's sake, I want to wake up. — Claire Messud

He Who Cannot Be Named is involved," I whispered. "Oh for shit's sake. This isn't Hogwarts," Aphrodite said. — P.C. Cast

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence ... — Elijah Muhammad

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. — Oscar Wilde

Love, not for a purpose, love just for the sake of love. — Debasish Mridha

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now ... — Nora Roberts

I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals. — Mitt Romney

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. — A.B. Shepherd

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them — Marcus Aurelius

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. — W. Somerset Maugham

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ... — Freya Stark

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Davis Stevenson

Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing
for the sake of other people. — Jeff VanderMeer

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake. — Martin Buber

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For my sake," he said suddenly, and my chest throbbed. "For your sake," I replied. — R.K. Ryals

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. — Elizabeth I

His own sake and the love of our neighbor for God's sake
is the fulfillment and the end of all Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. — Bertrand Russell

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do. — Sam Altman

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey

In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great. — Mark Helprin

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman. — Miguel De Unamuno

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. — C.S. Lewis

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. — Antonio Porchia

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius

That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday. — Ai Yazawa

This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake. — Mark Twain

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music — Herbie Hancock

Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic. — Denis Thatcher

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors. — Ricardo Semler

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts! — Emma Bunton

Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake. — Nora Roberts

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art. — Halle Berry

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. — Pope Francis

Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call. — J.R. Ward

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous. — Bryan Greenberg

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases. — Carlos Ghosn

I won't do something just for the sake of working. — Juliette Binoche

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama. — Donald Miller

Jesus fucking Christ, not again! For God's sake, get your clothes on. M's here!" he scream-whispered — Elle Keaton

better doubtless to believe much unreason and a little truth than to deny for denial's sake truth and unreason alike, — W.B.Yeats

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word! — R.C. Sproul

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. — Simon Raven

Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? — L.M. Montgomery

I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If — Erich Fromm

Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition. — Woodie Flowers

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home. — Masaharu Morimoto

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — Peter Drucker

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. — Mortimer Adler

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks

For God's sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog's collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense. — Sophie Kinsella

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. — Martin Luther

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. — Suzanne Farrell

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. — John Selden

You grow up. You move on. You find someone new. And for God's sake, you don't ask the first woman who lets you fuck her to marry you. — Tiffany Reisz

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake. — St. Catherine Of Siena

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer. — Rob Corddry

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. — Philibert Joseph Roux

You never find virtuosity for its own sake. — Daniel Hope

to do wrong for the wrong's sake only — Edgar Allan Poe

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. — Barack Obama