#sake

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#awful #became #clear #deal #easier

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#important #just #medicine #really #sake

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#best #christ #eternal #far #found

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#father #given #good #labor #manual

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#achievement #aspirations #broad #cannot #community

I'm not into power for the sake of it. ↗

— Helen Clark

#into #power #sake

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#am #around #country #diversity #find

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

#believe #i #i do #in my opinion #internal

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deny #never #peace #peace and quiet #quiet

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#any #cooperate #give #i #investigation