Sake Quotes - Page 10

• For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

  Avi

  Reading, Writing, Heaven

  Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

  Confucius

  Done, Riches, Novelty

  Confucius (1986). “The Analects”, Hippocrene Books

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• For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Legs, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.317, Macmillan

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• Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

  Brian Jacques

  Sound, Deeds, Littles

  Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.109, Penguin

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• Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

  Paul Celan

  Running, Art, Lying

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• He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Together, Littles

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• And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

  Sophie Scholl

  Mean, Heart, Islands

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• I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Soul, Asking

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• Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Suffering, Matter

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.61, Harper Collins

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• Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?" That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!

  James Patterson

  Men, House, Bombs

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• For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

  Aleister Crowley

  Unions, Chance, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley, Stephen Skinner (1996). “Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley: Tunisia 1923”, p.64, Weiser Books

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• I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Alive

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• I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis

  Lisa Kleypas

  Basements, Havens, Chained

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• Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

  Jason Mraz

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

  Aesop

  Old Friends, Neglect, Ifs

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• Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock and key. But just as he was aware of all that aligned them, he was even clearer on how they were damned to be ever apart.

  J.R. Ward

  Prayer, Book, Eye

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• When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Blessing, Eagles

  P.C. Cast (2016). “Divine By Mistake”, p.171, Harlequin

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• What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Sweet, Names

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Littles, Saws

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• For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Tails, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hair, Long, Sorrow

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.8, Vintage

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• There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Thinking, People

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus

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• The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it' (Luke 9:24)."I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives. Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish—and in effect save their lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Purpose, Littles

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• I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

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