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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. -- Aristotle
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. -- Herman Melville
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -- Ayn Rand
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. -- Leo Tolstoy
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. -- Pablo Picasso
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. -- Charles Lamb
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. -- Nelson Mandela
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. -- David Hockney
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. -- Lou Reed
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party -- Winston Churchill
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it. -- Daniel Schorr
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. -- Paul Nurse
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. -- Elizabeth I
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
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense. -- Jeremy Northam
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy. -- Russell Baker
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. -- Mother Teresa
For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. -- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint. -- Oswald Chambers
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic. -- Denis Thatcher
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. -- John Keats
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. -- Loretta Lynch
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. -- Hermann Hesse
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews. -- Lupe Fiasco
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. -- Louisa May Alcott
I love to find new people. It's not for the sake of their being new; it's because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that's such a great thing. -- Robert De Niro
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
Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive. -- Chris Hadfield
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. -- E. M. Forster
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. -- Maeve Binchy
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. -- Robert Falcon Scott
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. -- David Bowie
We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing. -- James McGreevey
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world. -- Kristina McMorris
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. -- Terry Pratchett
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. -- Dada Vaswani
Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake! -- Jan Karon
Deny Self for Self's sake -- Benjamin Franklin
My favorite drink is sake. -- Caity Lotz
Work for your own soul's sake. -- Edgar Lee Masters
Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake. -- Diana Vreeland
Danger for danger's sake is senseless. -- Leigh Hunt
Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything. -- Gloria Estefan
Leaving his country for his country's sake. -- Charles Fitzgeoffrey
For goodness sake, look at those cakes. -- James Brown
Nothing should be done for spite's sake. -- Winston Churchill
Literature is for the sake of humanity. -- Cynthia Ozick
Freedom exists for the sake of love. -- Pope John Paul II
Men exist for the sake of one another. -- Marcus Aurelius
Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] -- Howard Dietz
Never ran away for the sake of scars. -- Andy Biersack
My parents are private investigators for God's sake. -- Miranda Lambert
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. -- George Farquhar
My parents are private investigators for God's sake. -- Miranda Lambert
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! -- Avi
We are here for the sake of others -- Albert Einstein
The world exists for the sake of kindness. -- Rashi
For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. -- Teresa of Avila
For my sake, the entire world was created. -- Baal Shem Tov
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. -- Simon Raven
I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic. -- Pierce Brosnan
I believe in doing good for good's sake. -- John Henrik Clarke
Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you. -- Veronica Roth
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. -- Cassandra Clare
Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money! -- Sri Aurobindo
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. -- V. S. Pritchett
Clean your freakin' fryer. Be responsible for Christ's sake! -- Jon Taffer
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake. -- Ernesto Cardenal
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny. -- Kaitlin Olson
What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not into power for the sake of it. -- Helen Clark
There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake -- Todd Barry
All great things are done for their own sake. -- Robert Frost
I learned to love dance for its own sake. -- Suzanne Farrell
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you? -- William Shatner
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. -- Paul Wellstone
You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash! -- Kenneth Grahame
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. -- Charles Churchill
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake -- Dylan Moran
I try not to get too cute for cute's sake. -- Drew Goddard
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison -- Jenny Holzer
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart. -- Nadège Richards
Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace. -- Toba Beta
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV. -- Pete Waterman
aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. -- Noah Kerner
I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile. -- Gordon Ramsay
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived. -- Edward Steichen
I have never designed a language for its own sake. -- Niklaus Wirth
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours. -- Thomas Aquinas
Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake. -- Paula Scher
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. -- John Donne
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. -- Dylan Moran
I won't do something just for the sake of working. -- Juliette Binoche
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity... -- Dean Karnazes
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. -- Larry Wall
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. -- Plato
I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous. -- Natalie Dormer
entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ... -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. -- Harper Lee
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art -- Marty Rubin
I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals. -- Mitt Romney
We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake -- Reinhard Bonnke
Blood answers blood, especially that given for the sake of others. -- Helen C. Johannes
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. -- Jasper Fforde
I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake. -- Hari Nef
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words. -- Larry Wall

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