Sake Quotes - Page 31

• Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

  Roger Stone

  Art, Sometimes, Theater

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  Assata Shakur

  Given, Idealism, Without Hope

  Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.9, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness.

  Romano Guardini

  Mean, Greatness, Thinking

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• It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.

  Katrina Kaif

  Sex, Character, Clothes

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• Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Desire, Poverty

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  Aaron Spelling

  Patience, Thinking, Years

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• I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.

  John of Damascus

  Matter, Worship, Salvation

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• Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

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• Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation

  Sean Hannity

  Home, Election, Nations

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• The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

  Franz Boas

  Passion, Alive, Seeking

  "Race and Democratic Society". Book by Franz Boas. Introduction, 1945.

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• When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Sacrifice, Men

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.72, Cedar Fort

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Not Interested

  Interview with Ken P, www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  Thomas More

  Law, Safety, Giving

  "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", 1960.

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• 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. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Goal, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Despise, Clinging, Temperament

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• For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

  Rebecca West

  Country, Soul, Littles

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Advertising, Gin

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• Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

  Simon Raven

  Art, Money, Saving Money

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• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, People, Looks

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• For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date we dream of going home to watch television. We would prefer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit. We are almost constitutionally incapable of casual relationships.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Home, Mean

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• Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

  Richard Rorty

  Winning, Encounters, Scripture

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Giving, Want

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• On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Hands, Grace

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• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Arrows, Archery

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• We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Answers, May

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.119, Macmillan

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