Sake Quotes - Page 29

• AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Malaria, World

  "'In face of the threat posed by Aids we must rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save people'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• I cried at my son's sports day, for God's
  sake. I'm a huge baby

  Jamie Redknapp

  Sports, Baby, Son

  "Jamie Redknapp: this much I know". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Looking at my life
  I see that only Love
  Has been my soul’s companion
  From deep inside
  My soul cries out:
  Do not wait, surrender
  For the sake of Love.

  Rumi

  Waiting, Soul, Cry

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• 'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake, although they were perhaps their only property, and precious to them because they lived by them; and we, likewise, for the Lord's sake, ought to leave everything that hinders our following Him ? that is, all the many and various nets in which the enemy entangles us in life.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Leaving, Enemy

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• All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

  Laurel Mellin

  Happiness, Pain, Hands

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• No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Selfish, Ocean

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• Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful.

  Margaret Guenther

  Fun, Self, Play

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• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Moments

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.251

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• If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

  Zoe Weil

  Inspiring, Children, Reading

  Zoe Weil (2003). “Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times”, p.41, New Society Publishers

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

  Simon Barnes

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation.

  T. H. Watkins

  Dream, Spiritual, Powerful

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• Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

  Doug Casey

  Ties, Democracy, Mob Rule

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• He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Inspiration, Rose

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• The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

  Joseph Butler

  Mean, Self, Principles

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Life, Soul, Suffering

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• What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

  Jennifer Belle

  Girl, Cheer, Optimistic

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• Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone – create a friend, a bystander, a genie, for God’s sake, any sentient creature with whom your main character can converse, perhaps argue or, better yet, engage in some action. If a person is out and doing, it’s more likely that something interesting might happen to her or him. Shut up in a room with only his thoughts for company well, that way lies fictional disaster.

  Les Standiford

  Lying, Writing, Character

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• Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Discovery, Self, Ironic

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• It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.

  Deborah Reber

  Running, Taken, Mean

  Deborah Reber (2005). “Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners”, p.31, iUniverse

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• It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him, and worship Him. This gnosis should be sought for the sake of God, not for any other reason whatsoever, unlike the remaining external acts of devotion, which can be performed for other worldly interests, such as hypocrisy, praise, and commendation.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Men, Gnosis

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• If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

  Ellen Terry

  Sweet, Art, Lost Love

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

  Gordon Ramsay

  People, Goodness, Knows

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• There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Inspirational, Life, Vanity

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• We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Waiting, Heaven

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