Quotes About Sacrifice

Miss Cameron, you are quite something, you know. Marriage doesn't mean a damn thing to you. You don't, in the least, mind selling your own soul for Cameron Hall. But what of mine? What if I were in love with someone?

Lady, you forced me into this. You were willing to sell everything, both of our souls, for Jesse's house. Well, we saved it. Jesse will come back to claim it. But you forced me to be a husband. Now, Mrs. McCauley, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to force you to be a wife!

no one deserved the finest the American public could give more than the men and women who served in the military.

Every police officer, every National Guardsman and woman, every person in law enforcement, as well as in the military, knew that they put their lives on the line. But none did so with the expectation of facing enemy fire in the way that these soldiers had.

Anything, Christa?" he said. "Anything? What you're asking me to do is a mockery. So you had best mean it. You would do anything to save this place. You'd marry that white trash. You'd marry me.

I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love.

Was he really meant to give up his own life to care for her every hour of the day? Had he really signed up for that?

She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice.

Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones

just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.

Parenthood is like that." She tried to be doctorly. "The harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones.

that was how Penn lost the argument regardless because of course you could uproot a whole family of seven for the needs of just one of them because that's what family means.

This had always pissed him off about Romeo and Juliet, its ending platitude that at least the feud was laid to rest and the fighting families had come together as if this somehow made it worth losing their teenagers. As if Romeo and Juliet would have been willing to die just so their parents would get along.

To my students, I say this: one day each of you will be confronted by a decision that requires you to put the needs of the land above your own need to be right. Until you can accept that humiliation, you cannot be a Truthken.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

No matter how I think we grow, you always seem to let me know it ain't working, and when I try to walk away you hurt yourself to make me stay, this is crazy

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Para que una persona mereciera el título de "padre" era necesario mucho más que llevar a un niño en el vientre y parirlo

Was it always other creatures that had to pay for man's follies with their lives?

Lawrence Anthony

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.