Sake Quotes - Page 32

• Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
  Who works for money coins his very soul
  Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be,
  That this thing shall be added unto thee.

  Kenyon Cox

  Work, Goal, Missing

  Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”

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• I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Inspiration, Writing, Ideas

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.230, Latter-day Publishing

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• Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Government, House, Politics

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

  Peter Kreeft

  God

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.134, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Joshua

  Giving, Rewards, Mystery

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• Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Sacrifice, Keys

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2016

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• Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Eye, Men, Humanity

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• I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

  Tiberius

  Change, Men, Long

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• If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

  Wilhelm Rontgen

  Dark, Science, Expression

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• I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

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• O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Wise, Believe, World

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• I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Military, Believe, Men

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• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

  William Jacob Holland

  Journey, Men, Walking Meditation

  William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

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• We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Nature, Son, Men

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.25

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• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Fiction, Science Fiction

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• I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Sports, Fans, Television

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• 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.

  Adam Rickitt

  Trust, Jobs, Party

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• To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Boredom, Dying

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• Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Love, Attitude, Promise

  "The Christian and Anxiety".

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• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Love, Lying, Reading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.339, Random House

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Hero, Dark

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• My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

  Maria Jeritza

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Father, Men, Ties

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.18, tredition

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Home, Boys

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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