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«Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.»
«Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | About: Friendship | Keywords: ache, ached, oft, sake, THY
«Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.»
«MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love?s sake. I can not trade in love.»
«The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only»
«Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
«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.»
«That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.»
«There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.»
«Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.»

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