Sake Quotes - Page 39

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

Ricky Williams

Character, Names, Needs

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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

Malcolm Turnbull

Jobs, Thinking, Australia

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

Rachael Taylor

Thinking, Television, Able

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Amy Waldman

Creativity, Thinking, Naps

"Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

Ryan Adams

Fighting, Pride, Thinking

Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Nature, Community, Infrastructure

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What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

Dog, Sleep, Writing

Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

Compassion, Protect, Happenings

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Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Soul, Body

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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Spiritual, Children

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The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Blessed, Men

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...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself; and He will glorify Him at once' (Jn. 13:31-32). From This it is clear that divine gifts follow sufferings endured for the sake of virtue.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Passion, Son

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He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Sophie Swetchine

Giving, Joy, Charity

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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Dannel Malloy

World, Bombastic

"Connecticut Governor, Tackling Budget, Criticizes Christie’s Approach". Interview with David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2011.

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I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

James McGreevey

Believe, Torture, Greater Good

Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Kevin Whately

More Money, Not Interested

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

John Hodgman

Thinking, Order, Museums

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Never ran away for the sake of scars.

Andy Biersack

Scar, Ran

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What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

Gary Gutting

Thinking, Knowing, Goal

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In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

David Cage

Moving, Mean, Thinking

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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Commitment, Liberty, Doe

"Existentialism Is a Humanism". Lecture, 1946.

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A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

David Hewson

Horse, Children, Bed

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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

Ideas, Intellectual, May

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