Quotes with content-sake

Quotes 61 till 80 of 206.

  • Antonio Porchia I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Martin Luther King I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Anita Hill I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Boyd I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Adrian Lyne 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
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Aaron Allston I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Francis Bacon If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carlos Ghosn If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Buford If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Thomas Carlyle If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benny Anderson If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.
    Benny Anderson
    Swedish musician, composer and producer
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  • Charlotte Brontë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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