“So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.” MenInspirationalSelfLevelsInfluenceExampleBrotherLowsStandardsStriveSakeSelfishDenialSelfishnessLiftsRealmsAspirationIndulgeIndulgenceLiftingLoftySelf-denialSelf IndulgenceLow LevelRational ThoughtSelfish PeopleStrivers Author:Ossian Everett Mills
“I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.” IfsWantGivingWantedLawOrderMarriageExampleHusbandGiving UpMarriedDoctorsMedicineSakeLawyerMy HusbandMarry Me Author:Gwethalyn Graham
“Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.” WellsArtRememberActorsFunActingExampleSakeCraftsSurvivingGlamour Author:Boman Irani
“The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.” ArtFormNovelExampleSakeContactClassicDetectivesYawning Author:V. S. Pritchett
“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.” InspirationalSoulChristianPassionReligiousExampleMovementMaterialsGloryHatredAccountsSakeRichesOrthodoxSensibleIrrationalWorldlyMaterial ThingsBlindfolds Author:Maximus the Confessor
“I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.” IfsThinkingBelieveMeanBeliefExampleSakeElectricMonkFutilityEloquent Author:Richard Dawkins
“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.” ThinkingDifferencesExampleParticularPoetSakeFormerLatterPointingProceduresIllustrationAllegory Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.” PeopleAttentionExampleExerciseSakeServingPotScareNarcissismPalin Author:Rosanne Cash
“Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.” ThinkingLittlesAttentionVisionExampleUltimateSakeCriticalStatementsPotCynicismAmerican PoliticsCritical ThinkingRiotPalinMicrocosmBackup Author:Rosanne Cash