Quotes About Sacrifice

Ya. Sudah tiba waktunya bagiku untuk dibunuh! Jika aku yang memimpin pemberontakanmu ini dan gagal, kepalaku akan dipenggal. Engkaupun juga ... begitupun yang lain-lain. Mereka mati ada gantinya, pemimpin tidak. Kalau aku mati, menurutmu siapa yang akan memimpin rakyat, bila datang waktunya nanti?

Lebih baik pergi ke neraka tanpa Amerika daripada pergi ke sorga bersama dia - Manuel Quezon dari Filipina

Dari pertumpahan darah ini, dimana banyaj saudara-saudaraku menjadi korban, terbukti bahwa Indonesia tidak pernah menyerah. Kami tidak mau mengalah terhadap kolonialisme kembali, TIDAK!

Heroes are the family members who've lost loved ones to tragedy but go on. They're the teachers who work with kids society's given up on." He cast around for more examples. "What about single parents? Hell, people with lousy jobs they hate but who go to work every day rather than take a handout. The world is full of people doing decent, brave, honorable things.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

Which is your bad shoulder?" His brows knit together. "The left," he said carefully. She slugged him in the right. He staggered. Steadied himself. Grinned. "Is that like some weird Wyoming mating ritual thing I should know about?" "Damn you," she cried, flying into his arms. Finally. "Damn you, damn you, damn you!" He wrapped his arms around her, held her tight. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was such a coward.

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13

I'm going to say [to George W Bush], 'And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.' And if he even starts to say 'freedom and democracy,' I'm going to say, 'bullshit.' You tell me the truth. You ell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died so you can spread the cancer of Pax America, imperialism, in the Middle East (2005, Voices of a People's History of the US)

Real love—it's the best, most painful thing God ever did for us.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (I

Y ofreció el rey Salomón en sacrificio veintidós mil bueyes, y ciento veinte mil ovejas; y así dedicaron la casa de Dios el rey y todo el pueblo.

There was a time when I considered taking my chartered exams. But then I met Stuart and my career began to take a back seat to his. He often tells me I'll be the one to give up my career – such as it is – anyway when we have kids, so what's the point in doing all that training? I suppose he has a point.

There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood's just one of them.

Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

He is not commanding us to demand our rights. The only right that love has is the right to give itself.

É possível também que já então meu tema de vida fosse a irrazoável esperança, e que eu já tivesse iniciado a minha grande obstinação: eu daria tudo que era meu por nada, mas queria que tudo me fosse dado por nada.

If she was no longer herself that meant a loss that counted as a gain.

I shall do everything possible to see that she doesn't die. But I feel such an urge to put her to sleep then go off to sleep myself.