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I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul. -- Rachel Scott
I'm not into power for the sake of it. -- Helen Clark
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. -- Paul Wellstone
I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. -- Kevin Whately
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. -- Ralph Bakshi
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. -- Nelson Mandela
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable. -- Bryan Cranston
I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie. -- Lykke Li
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. -- Max Beckmann
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. -- Margaret Thatcher
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. -- Tracey Ullman
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. -- Clara Zetkin
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. -- Martin Luther
I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go. -- Joe Sakic
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. -- William Blake
I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go. -- Joe Sakic
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. -- Vivian Stanshall
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations. -- Omar Bongo
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. -- Orson Welles
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke. -- Selma Blair
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake. -- Ernesto Cardenal
I try not to get too cute for cute's sake. -- Drew Goddard
You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash! -- Kenneth Grahame
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity... -- Dean Karnazes
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake -- Dylan Moran
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. -- Dylan Moran
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. -- Larry Wall
Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. -- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. -- D. H. Lawrence
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. -- Samuel Hall Lord
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. -- Sylvester Stallone
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! -- Edward Abbey
Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking. -- Condoleezza Rice
I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward. -- Rick Owens
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. -- Aristotle
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. -- Aristotle
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. -- Orson F. Whitney
Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy. -- Mary Street
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live. -- Arnold Bennett
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. -- Steven Pressfield
I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality. -- Gordon Ramsay
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity. -- Jane Austen
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. -- Nhat Hanh
... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. -- Plato
Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something. -- Craig Ferguson
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. -- Nicholas Culpeper
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. -- Blaise Pascal
You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake. -- Sam Altman
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's. -- Aristotle
No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything. -- Michael Grant
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. -- Mark Twain
I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake. -- John of Damascus
We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves. -- Shunryu Suzuki
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. -- Saint Augustine
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. -- William McKinley
I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered. -- Patrick Leahy
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake. -- Thomas Merton
If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth. -- Mimi Weddell
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. -- Epicurus
It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite -- P. C. Cast
Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone. -- Arthur Guiterman
Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education -- Sai Baba
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. -- Emma Donoghue
I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type. -- Suzanne Collins
It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism. -- Mary Robinette Kowal
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities... -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. -- William Hazlitt
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives. -- Lori Palatnik
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. -- Winston Churchill
The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. -- Osama bin Laden
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. -- Steve Erickson
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. -- Rumi
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty. -- Agnes Smedley
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. -- Joshua Foer
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad. -- Criss Jami
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
Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance. -- Archibald Marwizi
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right~? -- Epictetus
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? -- Epictetus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. -- Albert Camus
Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake... -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table. -- Charlie Gonzalez
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty. -- Confucius
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. -- Winston Churchill
Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. -- Aristotle
I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition. -- Persis Khambatta
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake. -- Sallust
I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it. -- Judy Davis
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people. -- Robert Falcon Scott
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. -- Anton Chekhov
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. -- C. S. Lewis
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. -- Adam Smith
What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise. -- Chris Hayes
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. -- William Butler Yeats
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. -- B. F. Skinner
Goodnight, moon. Goodnight, stars. Goodnight planets, comets and... Mars. Yes, even you, Mars. And not only for the sake of the rhyme. -- Paul The Astronaut
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) -- Benjamin Constant
Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job. -- Caroline Myss
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail. -- Tahir Shah
Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking. -- William Hazlitt
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution. -- Rudolf Steiner
Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake. -- Nora Roberts
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man. -- Erwin McManus
I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition. -- Adrien Brody

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