So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.
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.
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
Oh, for Thor's sake. . . " said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story. . . " "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.
ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.