(153 quotes found)
“Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!”
Emma Bunton
“The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede”
Eugene Herrigel
“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
“Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.”
Robert J. McCracken
“An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.”
Paul Klee
“Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different”
Lord Samuel
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“"What is the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake, what are you doing!"I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!” Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.”
Carl Andre
“If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end”
Sara Jeannette Duncan
