Sake Quotes - Page 14

• You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Powerful, Greed, Soul

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• The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.

  Tana French

  Wall, Ocean, Animal

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• For f*ck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood" ~Zsadist

  J.R. Ward

  Needs, Woods, Crosses

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• As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.

  David Levithan

  Fighting, Pet, Common

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

  Darynda Jones

  Hurt, Guy, Heaven

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.299, St. Martin's Press

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• Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Would Be

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.51, SCM Press

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• What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

  Susan Cain

  What If, Wish, World

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.88, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

  Kami Garcia

  Past, Dying, Gone

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• He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

  Douglas Adams

  Successful, Car, Getting Lost

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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  Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Humanity

  "My Cancer Brings All the Crazies to the Yard" by Kevin Lankes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

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• You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?

  Kerstin Gier

  Mother, Uncles, Silly

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• I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat." Peabody mopped at her face. "Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why." With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. "I'll buy you a dozen, precious." "Cannolis, for God's sake.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Sweat, Laughing

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• Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

  Paul Zindel

  Being Yourself, Cutting, Hair

  Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”

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• Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

  "Life Togehter".

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• But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Shapes, Lines

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• For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Heart, Two

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• I just -- I know my own heart and I love you, Turner. And if you have even the tiniest shred of decency, you'll say something because I've said everything I possibly can, and I can't bear the silence, and -- oh for heaven's sake! Will you at least blink?" He couldn't even manage that.

  Julia Quinn

  Love You, Heart, Silence

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Opportunity, Differences

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• Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Risk, Want

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1714, Dell

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• Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Stupid, Rich Countries

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• Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on the same team, right?! Jellal!

  Hiro Mashima

  Team, Taken, Away From You

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• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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