#sake

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#beautifully #because #done #eccentric #fabulous

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#goodness #his #love #man #over

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. ↗

— Reginald Maudling

#bloody #bring #country #god #large

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

#any #believe #enables #god #good

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ↗

— Herman Melville

#grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#act #fathers #our #results #sake

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#challenged #change #hostile #how #impression

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#character #color #end #must #natural

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people