I have never designed a language for its own sake.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
We are here for the sake of others
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.
Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.