Quotes About Sacrifice

I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.

Can love really belong to the demon?

When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self.

When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self.

there's no choice that doesn't mean a loss

De ce masura iubirii este pierderea ei?

Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!

She hated the small and the mean, and yet that is all she had. I bought a few big houses myself along the way, simply because I was trying out something for her. In fact, my tastes were more modest -- but you don't know that until you have bought and sold for the ghost of your mother.

Keep me in the mop bucket or the slot where the grill pan goes, but don't let me go because I love you.

I have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.

Mi madre odiaba ser una don nadie, así que como todos los niños, adoptados o no, he tenido que vivir algunas de las vidas que ella no pudo vivir. Es algo que hacemos por nuestros padres, no tenemos otra opción.

koca bir fili gökyüzüne sal?vermek bir kad?n?n omuzlar?na olmad?k sorumluluklar yükler.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered. (Bk2:8)

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme, aux droits de l'humanité, même à ses devoirs.

Yo, por un cúmulo de males de todo género, había de servir de ejemplo a todo aquel que, inspirado por el solo amor del bien público y de la justicia, se atreva, escudado únicamente en su inocencia, a decir a los hombres la verdad abiertamente, sin apoyarse en las intrigas y

A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.

nunca hará mal alguno a otro hombre, ni aun a cualquier ser sensible, salvo el legítimo caso en que, hallándose comprometida su propia conservación, se vea forzado a darse a sí mismo la preferencia.

Again I must enter into minute and detailed explanations. I hear my readers murmur, but I am prepared to meet their disapproval; I will not sacrifice the most important part of this book to your impatience. You may think me as long-winded as you please; I have my own opinion as to your complaints.

Gli animali che voi mangiate non sono quelli che ne divorano altri; voi non mangiate gli animali carnivori, bensì li utilizzate come modelli. Voi siete affamati unicamente delle creature dolci e gentili che non fanno alcun male a nessuno, che vi seguono, che vi servono, e che sono da voi divorate quale ricompensa ai servigi che vi rendono

Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

She was keeping it, she explained, to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the Dad had pawned shortly after they got married. 'But Mom,' I said, 'that ring could get us a lot of food.' 'That's true,' Mom said, 'but it could also improve my self-esteem. And at times like these, self-esteem is even more vital than food.

I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.