Quotes About Sacrifice

She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war.

If I had a drop of Pastor Palmer's blood in me I would drained it all out and die slowly."

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Find what you like, and let it kill you

Draven stood below the gate disrobing. Slowly, and piece by piece, he removed his sword, his surcoat, his mail armor, and then his padded aketon until there was nothing left but the wealth of tawny skin gleaming in the sunlight. Stark naked, he walked toward the gate. Emily bit back her tears as she understood. "You asked me for proof of his feelings, Majesty. You now have it!

When he'd started out, he'd expected to find his brother. What he'd never thought to find was the treasure that slept beside him now. Would you trade this to have Kieran back? It was a choice he was grateful he didn't have to make. But in the end, he knew the truth. Catarina was his life. He would sacrifice anything for her. Anyone.

If it makes you feel better though, she is well worth it. (Draven) I hope you can still say that when they're scooping your entrails out and you're still alive to feel it. (Simon)

Please don't send me away, Serenity. I came back because I need you. I want us…you, me, and Nicholas…to have a life together. To build a house…and…and farm like Jake, or maybe buy a business. I no longer care where I live. I just want to be with you, Serenity. With you and with Nicholas forever. Please say yes. (Morgan)

I was picking flowers. (Nora) And you think that handful of weeds was worth risking your life and wellbeing? (Ewan) My mother has oft told me that men have sacrificed their lives and kingdoms for a woman's smile, so why not risk the ire of a bear for a bouquet? (Nora)

I can almost believe the rumors that say you've sold your soul to the devil when you look like that. (Sean) You can more than believe it, MacKaid. Harm her and I'll introduce you to the devil myself. (Ewan)

His eyes defiant and smoldering, Braden held his sword aimed at the MacDouglas's throat. "To get to her, you'll have to come through me." "You want to die for her?" Robby asked. "Aye," Braden said without hesitation. He glanced at her and for the first time she saw the love in his eyes. "I will die for her.

Life at sea is hard. And often deadly. (Morgan) Then why do you do it? (Serenity) Because we love it. (Morgan) A glutton for punishment, aren't you? (Serenity)

You can't save the world, Stryder. (Rowena) If I save one person, then I have saved their world. Homes are not built of one single slab, but rather they are made of hundreds of stones. If one stone is crushed, then the entire house is compromised, if not ruined. I might not save them all, but I have to save as many as I can. (Stryder)

I want your heart, Sin. (Callie) It's battered and useless, but what remains of it is all yours, milady. (Sin)

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.

I am a very possessive woman. But I knew that if I were to keep you, I would have to let go of you. I

So they became superpatriots. And to prove themselves right-minded, they were more than willing to sacrifice the lives of others, even their fellow Jews. They were like the Vichy government in France, collaborators who held on to their influence and position at the expense of their fellow countrymen.

The bridge of stars?" Janeway asked. "Uh-huh," Glenn said, nodding. "I can't remember the whole story. Two galaxies were one but over time, the natural expansion of the universe separated them. Still, they couldn't bear to be torn apart, so each of them sacrificed a few of their stars to leave a bridge between them so that no matter how far apart they drifted, they could never truly be separated." "That's beautiful," Chakotay said, glancing toward Janeway with a gentle smile.

Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.

She put the needs of a few of those closest to her ahead of the many.

Her shortsightedness had almost brought the entire multiverse to oblivion. That Admiral Janeway had chosen to die so her younger self and crew might live, but had that been a noble sacrifice? Or was it her only escape from pain she no longer knew how to endure? How

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?