Quotes About Sacrifice

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

The road to hell is strewn with roses.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Soul sells life for the price of heartache.

It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven.

We fight best, and die best, and live best, for what we love.

Wherever a man of vigour and stature manages to grow up, he is haled forthwith into the army. A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, 'ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.

And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work—just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light; and our moments were sweeter for being stolen. For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. And this out of all remains: I did not fail.

He whirled with fierce passion on me: 'Don't you ever let yourself grow old, lad. Die when you're young, or you'll come to this. I'm tellin' you sure. Seven an' eighty years am I, an' served my country like a man. Three good conduct stripes and the Victoria Cross, an' this is what I get for it. I wish I was dead, I wish I was dead. Can't come any too quick for me, I tell you.

He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.

Luchamos mejor, morimos mejor y vivimos mejor por aquello que amamos.

Biliyor musunuz,' diye ekledi. 'Bay Butler'a ac?yorum. DoÄŸru dürüst harcayamayaca?? otuz bin dolar kazanmak için hayat?n? boÅŸa harcam??. Niye mi, çünkü art?k otuz bin dolar verse bile çocukken on sente alabileceÄŸi ÅŸeyleri alamaz, mesela ÅŸeker, f?st?k veya tiyatroda en üst balkondan bir bilet.

his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.

La posesión de un dios trae consigo el servicio.

Mercanti della carità, andate ad imparare dai poveri, perché solo i poveri sono caritatevoli. Loro non danno né negano dal loro sovrappiù, perché di sovrappiù non ne hanno. Loro danno, non negano mai [...]. Dare un osso al cane non è carità. Carità è spartire l'osso col cane avendo fame quanto lui.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

1. You Get What You Give.

bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me'.

Elric spoke a mighty sermon, while Magre started the fire in his pit. Elric expounded, recited Scripture and sang the glories of the Faith. When he came to an end and declared his final 'Hallelujah!', Magre gave him a stoup of ale to ease his throat. Sharpening a knife he complimented Elric upon the fervour of his rhetoric. Then he smote off Elric's head, cut, drew, spitted, cooked and devoured the sanctified morsel with a garnish of leeks and cabbages.

Working to fulfill someone else's needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!