#sake

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. ↗

— Gerald Gould

#pleasure #sake #sin #take #you

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#reality tv #rude #sake #television #tv

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#down #drives #few #few people #horrible

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#duty #earthly #father #happen #highest

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. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#further #goal #hitting #how #learn

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#arena #away #beginning #being #compromised

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#help #how #knowledge #mankind #might

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #beauty #cheat #know #moment

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#i #know #labels #music #ones