Sake Quotes - Page 36

• Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

  Haim Ginott

  Stress, Growth, Storm

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• In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Men, Two

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• It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Light, May

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.440

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Greed

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• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Suffering, Victory

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

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• There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Acceptance, Hunting, Trophies

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.51, University of Arkansas Press

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• Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Judging, Authority, Given

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

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• I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Hands, Empty

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  Allen Tate

  Art, Mean, Years

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Eight

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• I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

  Jillian Michaels

  Mom, Firsts, Used

  "Jillian Michaels Reveals That She Has Sacrificed Fitness For Motherhood". radaronline.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Truth, Inhuman

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Loyalty, Iron

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  Alice Meynell

  Fashion, Strong, Stupid

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• Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

  Maimonides

  Views, Evil, Judgement

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.301, Behrman House, Inc

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• When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Artist, Goal, Wish

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• To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Victory, Fasting, Purpose

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.36, Random House

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• A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mud, Politician, Scruples

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Silly, Should Have, Serious

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.494, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Work, Blessing, Order

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• Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Mind, Faults

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• I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

  Pat Buchanan

  Kids, Media, Heaven

  "Think Again: How Conservatives Treat Media Bias (Hint: Confusingly)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

  Christopher Dodd

  Spring, Abuse, Secrecy

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• I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

  Lionel Blue

  Heaven, Encounters, Things Change

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