Quotes About Sacrifice

"You're different," he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country. We were doing what we were trained to do. We were doing our job.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.