Quotes About Sake

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

Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action's sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.

There's no such thing as evil for its own sake . All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

O Lord that bear rule, even we all are full of impiety. And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

As they exited the conference room, Summer tugged at Dirk's elbow. "So what did the data from Perlmutter cost you?" she chided, knowing the gourmet historian's penchant for culinary blackmail. "Nothing much. Just a jar of pickled sea urchins and an eighty-year-old bottle of sake." "You found those in Washington, D.C.?" Dirk gave his sister a pleading look of helplessness. "Well," she laughed, "we do have six more hours in port.

Yes, I think that of all his books this is my favourite one. I don't know whether it makes one "think," and I don't much care if it does not. I like it for its own sake. I like its manners.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

He wanted to accumulate knowledge for its own sake, and for his own personal joy, rather than out of a desire to make a public name for himself as a scholar or to be part of the progress of history.

It is worth emphasizing, therefore, that it is precisely comprehension in reading that this book seeks to improve. You cannot comprehend a book without reading it analytically; analytical reading, as we have noted, is undertaken primarily for the sake of comprehension (or understanding).

It is as if the fact that God is light, penetrating and manifesting everything, is so absolutely important that darkness and bondage can and must exist for the light's sake.

Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

You loved the world for its own sake or not at all.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.

I think Seattle has a great sort of luxury and comfort sensibility, which I oftentimes think is lost in fashion for fashion's sake.

When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.

I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity`s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that. -Aphrodite

Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it, Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. And I usually love sparkly things.