Sake Quotes - Page 24

• Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Unless you are honestly convinced that the thing in question will bring glory to God, then don't do it.

  Curtis Hutson

  Attitude, Names, Dresses

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• 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.

  Clark Kerr

  Confused, Balance, British

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Marston Morse

  Play, Design, Important

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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• I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

  James Van Fleet

  Long, Progress, Way

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.37, Penguin

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• After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reason. The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment.

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Believe, People

  "Impeachment Debate Postponed / House Republicans want to reschedule vote no later than Monday" by Marc Sandalow, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.

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• My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

  Nadia McCaffrey

  War, Lying, Son

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• 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.

  Liam Fox

  Broken Heart, Country, People

  "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  Smile, for your lover comes!

  Walt Whitman

  Sunset, Dark, Moon

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.42, Routledge

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• We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?

  Lottie Moon

  Offering, Followers, Rich

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.223, Mercer University Press

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• I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

  Sade Adu

  Records, Selling, Not Interested

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• True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leader, Suffering, Demand

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.20, Moody Publishers

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• We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Forgiving, Should

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure sake of giving brings the deepest joy imaginable. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity that changed my life in every way

  Lori Palatnik

  Grateful, Opportunity, Giving

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• 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.

  Adrian Lyne

  Monsters, Balls, Done

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• I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

  Peter Hammill

  Metaphor, Currents, Interest

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• In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

  Ken Danby

  Details, Useless, Painting

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

  Jedediah Berry

  Secret, Answers, Creation

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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• Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

  B. Traven

  People, Heaven, Needs

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• 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.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Home, Different, Satisfaction

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Brother, Children, Home

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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Encouragement, Morning, Art

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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Political, Liberty

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

  Isak Dinesen

  Lying, Christ, Good Things

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.51, Vintage

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