Top 1200 Sake Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

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

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

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

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

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

The Premier League is really strong but I'm not a player who likes new challenges just for the sake of it.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

I want to destroy the old concept that a company is a place where one sacrifices time for the sake of money.

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

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

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

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I do not chase silly drama for the sake of storylines, though it sometimes seems to find me.

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

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

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?

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

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

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

I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Prakash Jha is an intense filmmaker, he is a perfectionist. He would never have a song just for the sake of it.

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

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

I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

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

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

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.