Sake Quotes - Page 4

• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  Elaine Equi

  Rap, Wine, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.

  Francis Frangipane

  Christian, Evil, Hatred

  Francis Frangipane (2013). “The Power Of Covenant Prayer”, p.114, Charisma Media

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• There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Fields, Remember, Possibility

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

  David Toop

  Reading, Ocean, Book

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

  Park Dietz

  Sacrifice, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

  Pierce Brosnan

  "A Conversation with Pierce Brosnan". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.

  Oliver Harris

  Editing, Balance, Would Be

  Source: bigother.com

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• All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

  George Saunders

  Tradition, Meanness

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

  Henry Ford

  Way, Failing, Making Changes

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  Mos Def

  Care, Ridiculous, Fame

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

  Fady Joudah

  Independent, Independence, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, School, Taught

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

  Hal Holbrook

  Hurt, School, America

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

  Bucky Pope

  Song, Writing, Track

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

  Steve Erickson

  Fiction, Not Interested, Experiments

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• My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

  Michael Sandel

  Kids, Differences, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin to religion. But - as in my comment about the Kingdom of God in the last answer - Jewish and Christian traditions are also prepared to challenge what 'is' for the sake of what could be.

  George Pattison

  Christian, Challenges, Inspire

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sex, Book, Destiny

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Sacrifice, Men

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• The idea of being in control for the sake of control, is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing, you know, what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

  Tina Fey

  Ideas, Important, Doing You

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, Mom, Lying

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

  Huston Smith

  Compassion, Self, Deny

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• The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.

  Rosanne Cash

  Exercise, People, Scare

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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