Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Marcus Aurelius

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

Todd Barry

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

Steve Erickson

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

Thomas Merton

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

Martin Buber

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Peter Hammill

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Pierce Brosnan

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

Veronica Roth

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

Robert Frost

All great things are done for their own sake.

Walter Benjamin

Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope.

Thomas Hardy

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Thomas Ligotti

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Jeffrey Jones

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

Christopher Lasch

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jay Asher

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

Chris Hayes

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

Henry Mayhew

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

Bryan Cranston

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Gloria Estefan

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Mila Kunis

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

Epicurus

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Henrik Ibsen

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.