#sake

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#clock #construe #defeating #gone #i

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. ↗

— Roger Stone

#me #own #performance #performance art #politics

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#brought #certainty #desired #joy #may

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economic #even #grandchildren #health #make

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#even #gandhi #heaven #india #know

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. ↗

— Bill Conti

#aesthetic #composers #higher #i #illusions

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. ↗

— Jack Vance

#roy #sake #science #science fiction

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#acting #altogether #burgeoning #by the time #career

And hope is but a dream of those that wake. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#hope #inspirational #matthew #namesake #prior

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #bigger #bigger picture #dilemma #doing