Quotes About Sacrifice

It's not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. In the gold wash of the chapel, breathing her reasons into my ear, she asked, every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

Well, I guess if Jesus could die for my sins, I suppose I can soak up a few for other people. We all get our chance to play scapegoat. Take the blame. The martyrdom of Saint Me. The sins of every man in history landing square on my back.

Mit einem Schwert in deinem Herzen sterben.

Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Again, Benji was reminded of the girl's absurd bravery. She had nothing to gain here. The man, Clade Berman, was nowhere near her own sister. He presented no danger to anyone but his own family. That marked her as someone who had a lot of untapped courage - there was that word again, echoing the conversation with Arav - or someone who cared little for herself or her own life. (He wondered idly, How often do those two things intertwine?)

Human sacrifice has power," he said. "The world has long understood that, but now it pretends to know differently—ohh, we're all so buttoned-up, pretending we don't do those things anymore, even though we sacrifice the homeless on our cold streets, or migrant children at the border, or the poor at every turn.

Past the crucifix on the wall with the poor, scary man named Jesus who hangs there, bleeding.

That was a pretty good laptop, but Reagan's glad to lose it. Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the search for sweet lulz

What importance should be given to details, in developing a subject?-- Remorselessly sacrifice everything that does not contribute to clarity, verisimilitude, and effect. Accentuate everything that sets the main idea in relief, so that the impression be colourful, picturesque. It's sufficient that the rest be in its proper place, but in half-tone. That is what gives to style, as to painting, unity, perspective, and effect. - Constantin Georges Romain Héger, teacher to Charlotte Brontë

But you see, everyone has a part to play. In this theater, I'm a daughter and a sister and a mother—never an artist. I could be, I don't know, Luc Tuymans, and it would mean nothing to them. They allow no room for anything but my duty.

First I will claim you with a mark to symbolize your willingness to suffer for me. I've chosen the single tail for your mark. You will choose where it lands.

If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price! But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

If you kill Syaoran-kun, it will all be over! You and I will be over too!

Haven't you learned, Kamui? When a Dragon of Heaven cries out…a Dragon of Earth will always be there to respond.

That Dragon of Heaven wanted to lose his left eye…to be just like you. But deeper still in his heart lies his true desire…and you are the only one…who can give him that. Not that you have a clue what it is! His true desire—it's not what you're thinking!

If she gets caught and punished by the God King…it'll break Ashura's heart again.

Wanna try me on for size? Go ahead. After all, you're just my type. Though it's a pity you'll lose your pretty head. My master Koumokuten demands it!

Listen, child. If you knew that the most precious thing to you…was something that would bring tragedy, what would you do?" "I'd protect it. I'd hold onto it tight and protect it as long as I was alive." "Then be strong for the thing most precious to you. Only then can you realize your destiny.

No matter how many thousands must shed their blood…or if it means going to hell, I will never break my promise.

Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone, Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

This principle—that sacrifice deepens our commitment—doesn't just work in marriages. It applies to members of our family and close friends, as well as organizations and even cultures and nations.

Given that sacrifice deepens our commitment, it's important to ensure that what we sacrifice for is worthy of that commitment, as the church was for me and Annie. Perhaps nothing deserves sacrifice more than family—and not just that others should sacrifice for you, but that you should sacrifice for your family