Sake Quotes - page 3

These are, of course, some things which, for utility's sake, must be made of the same size in a small theatre, and a large one: such as the steps, curved cross-aisles, their parapets, the passages, stairways, stages, tribunals, and any other things which occur that make it necessary to give up symmetry so as not to interfere with utility. (Vitruvius)
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty. View quote
Geri Halliwell
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. View quote
Henry Mayhew
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. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
I learned to love dance for its own sake. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission. View quote
Kingoro Hashimoto
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing. View quote
William James
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself. (William James)
Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good. View quote
Maimonides
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings? View quote
Polybius
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. View quote
Ayn Rand
[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours. View quote
Eusebius of Caesarea
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. (Alexander Pope)
It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts. View quote
Fatimah
[About compassion] You can have the ‘golden rule'-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it. View quote
Jennifer Beals