Quotes About Sacrifice

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will...

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

And we won't come back till it's over over there.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.

Curtin had been too sick to announce German's surrender on 9 May 1945. He passed away on 5 July, less than two months before Japan's surrender on 2 September. An estimated hundred thousand people attended his funeral in Perth: one-third of the city's entire population. Among the pallbearers were Liberal Party leader Robert Menzies and Country Party leader Arthur Fadden, testament to a rare Australian leader who was admired across the political spectrum.

Well it looks like the road to heaven But it feels like the road to hell When I knew which side my bread was buttered I took the knife as well Posing for another picture Everybody's got to sell But when you shake your ass They notice fast And some mistakes were built to last.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms,A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,And feed on prayers, which are age his alms.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

You think my life is such a precious thing to me, that I would trade my honor for a few more years, of what?

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

Debes conocer a los hombres que te siguen-le oyo decir a Robb una vez-, y ellos debe conocerte. No les pidas a tus hombres que mueran por un desconocido.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

The things I do for love.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.