Sake Quotes

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

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.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

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

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

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

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

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

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

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

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

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.