#sake

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#anything #call #external #external things #good

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#achieved #action #also #course #film

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. ↗

— Albert Camus

#completely #die #dying #except #freedom

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#back #before #being #civilized #easy

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#forget #getting #live #living #men

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#faith #god #post #rotten #sake

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake. ↗

— Cat Deeley

#i #just #need #sake #shop

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#being #being famous #come #fame #famous

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. ↗