Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Kevin Whately

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

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Henry Ford

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Larry Wall

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Kenny Smith

Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Will Self

Things are only boring if you are boring.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Lillie White

I rearrange furniture at home all the time, at least three or four times a year. It gets boring if you don't.

Yorg Kerasiotis

Incredible Consequence. We all love so many different kinds of music that it would be boring to have just one style.

Shelly King

Take parking monitors for instance. How boring would that be unless you had a friend to do it with you?

Ken Parker

It keeps the days moving quickly, ... After 25 years, I can say there really is never a boring moment.

Morris Hite

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Donna Frye

Whether or not (Torrey Pines) is a believable example, do believe me when I say today that (people) have expressed interest in buying Torrey Pines Golf Course and some of the other lands that I believe should remain in public hands. I'm just saying the potential exists.

Rodrigo Santoro

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Roger Spottiswoode

The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Katie McGrath

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

Tom Shales

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

David Martin

This was critical, because this had been a shortcoming of other previous studies with acupuncture -- the simulated acupuncture treatments were not believable to the patients.

Maeve Binchy

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.