Sake Quotes

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

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

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

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.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

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.

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.