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Quotes About Sacrifice

A jolt, a white flash, a thunderclap, and the Hayate was torn apart—her bow floated one way, her stern the other, each section bobbing pitifully on the sea, and then both quickly sank, taking 168 men down with them. The battery's crew let out a full-throated cheer. "Knock it off, you bastards, and get back on the guns!" bellowed Platoon Sergeant Henry Bedell. "What do you think this is, a ball game?
~ Ian W. Toll
Things were so bad at Pearl Harbor," Seaman Mason recalled, "that even the chiefs were working.
~ Ian W. Toll
Man, don't worry about me," he said. "I know you're going to get out of there." "Dad, I don't know if I'm ever coming home. You can have one of my lungs. If I'm gonna die in prison, I'd rather something of mine be free.
~ Unknown
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
~ Ida B. Wells
Quando lui respirava, lei si affrettava a procurargli l'aria.
~ Unknown
As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
~ Idina Menzel
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
~ Idries Shah
To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
~ Idries Shah
Words have to die if humans are to live.
~ Idries Shah
Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.
~ Idries Shah
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.
~ Idries Shah
Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
~ Idries Shah
El conocimiento no da nada a un hombre hasta que él no se lo haya dado todo.
~ Idries Shah
Si tienes dos camisas, vende una y con el dinero compra una flor".
~ Idries Shah
Servicio No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario. Rabia el-Adawia.
~ Idries Shah
Sirri al-Saqati, who died in 867 of the Christian Era, said: 'True wisdom is: non-attachment to self and devotion to Truth.
~ Idries Shah
No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario.
~ Idries Shah
Es axiomático que el intento de hacerse sufi para lograr ventajas personales, o lo que suele entenderse por las mismas, no tendrá éxito.
~ Idries Shah
Definición de un Sufi Para aprender, la gente debe abandonar mucho, y esto incluye el ritual como algo de lo cual imaginan que pueden aprender. Es para recalcar esto que Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, citado en Taarruf, de Kalabadhi, declara que el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.
~ Idries Shah
Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.
~ Idries Shah
Saadi: Sé un verdadero renunciador (zahid) e incluso podrás usar raso.
~ Idries Shah
Quien se convierta a sí mismo en salvado será comido por vacas.
~ Idries Shah