Sake Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  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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• Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Running, Vision, Want

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

  Camila Cabello

  Song, Expression, Sanity

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.

  Natalie Dormer

  Believe, Nudity, Don't Believe

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

  Paula Scher

  Art, Purpose

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I'm not going to blow up just for the sake of it, because it's on TV. That's not the issue.

  Chelsea Handler

  Blow, Issues, Tvs

  Source: variety.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, and if anything I've always steered a bit clear of that kind of thing, because it seems gimmicky to play around with text rather than do the work of telling a story and creating characters.

  Steve Erickson

  Character, Creating, Play

  "Steve Erickson and Zeroville: An Interview with a True American Original". Interview With Jeff VanderMeer, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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• [John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Views, Conventions, Importance

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

  Vladimir Putin

  Commitment, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, Government

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• It would be crazy for me to come out now talking about selling drugs and doing all this stuff I never did for the sake of A&R or records or trying to keep the street buzz or whatever.

  Chamillionaire

  Crazy, Talking, Drug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Envelopes, Pushing, Pushing The Envelope

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Provocative

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

  Patrick Leahy

  Thinking, Delay, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lasts, Progressive, Relevant

  Source: progressive.org

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• The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for the sake of a balanced relationship, bound to turn a blind eye to obvious, blatant violations of human rights and the deconstruction of democratic institutions in these countries.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Eye, Violation Of Human Rights

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.

  David Bowie

  Prayer, Church Service, Two

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Humanity, Energy, Nuclear

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• Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an enquiring and an inquisitive mind, these factors outweigh whatever equipment we use.

  Michael Kenna

  Mind, Important, Cameras

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it. I've been very adamant about saying, "No! I don't want to release a book just for the sake of writing a book. I'm going to write a book when I feel like I have something to say in a book."

  Lilly Singh

  Book, Writing, Peers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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