#sake

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

#evasion #i #kid #kind #makes

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on. ↗

— Barack Obama

#children #complain #determination #equality #families

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater? ↗

— Paracelsus

#created #cures #greater #more #remedy

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

#another man #ask #i #life #live

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#comfort #elect #fact #great #inwardly

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to. ↗

— Susan Rice

#court #effective #elbows #execute #gotta

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake? ↗

— Tim Robbins

#communist #communist party #god #going #i

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#even #god #goddam #horse #human

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be. ↗

— Fred Savage

#either #falter #great #how #i

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#creek #human #human beings #i #sake