Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Henry Mayhew

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

Christopher Lasch

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Chris Hayes

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jeffrey Jones

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

Ralph Bakshi

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

Sebastian Faulks

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

Lykke Li

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

Leigh Hunt

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

Larry Wall

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

David Eddings

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

Dannel Malloy

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

J. C. Ryle

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

Gloria Estefan

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

Jay Asher

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Todd Barry

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Henrik Ibsen

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Maurice Sendak

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

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.

Helen Clark

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

Epicurus

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Lara Pulver

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

Thomas Aquinas

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

Thomas Aquinas

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

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.