Sake Quotes - Page 11

• I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

  Dorothy Parker

  Brave, Taste, Enough

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• But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

  Aimee Mann

  Past, Doubt, Momentum

  Song: Momentum

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• When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Loss, Sight, Honor

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.325, Bible Study Steps

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• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Sleep, Angel

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• In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Loving Life, Two, Achievement

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks

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• And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Dark, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

  Bram Stoker

  Fear, Thinking, Sea

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.18, Zillmann Publishing

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• anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming

  Meg Cabot

  Morning, Princess, Paris

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Royal Scandal”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Science, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

  Louise Rennison

  Moon, Light, Window

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• For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

  Saul Bellow

  Dog, Littles, Universe

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• O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Dream, Your Side

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.406, NYU Press

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• 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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