Sake Quotes

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

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

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

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.

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.