Quotes About Sacrifice

It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition—the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress, and us to this savage battle.

Every day I dance attendance on one sister or the other and play pander to the king. Every day I deny my own desire, my own passion, I deny my own soul! I make my life a secret to myself. Now you come.

You're a girl from the House of Lancaster. You cannot fall in love with the heir to the House of York unless he is king victorious, and there is some profit in love for you. These are hard days we are living in. Death is our companion, our familiar. You need not think you can keep Him at arm's length. You will find He bears you close company. He has taken your husband; hear me: He will take your father and your brothers and your sons.

them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from

I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

She knew she was going to drop it. Was sure she was going to drop it, so to make sure she didn't, pretended she was carrying a little baby sister across a river filled with alligators. If she dropped her end of the crate, her sister, her dear little sister, her sick little sister, would fall into the water below and be eaten alive.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Un foie, deux reins, trois raisons d'utiliser la baïonnette.

At any rate, they got the lead out—but paid a hideous price.

When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage. Niobe explained, You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.

Call it what you will. One of you will stay—or all will stay. The tax will be paid." And the rocs dropped lower yet. "Poll your number to determine the one.

Periodically Willis's mother would snatch her family's own food off the table and take it round to neighbours, replying to her son's protests: "Stop whining! You're hungry. They're starving!"84

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ...

For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

Crito we owe a rooster to Aesculapius

For wherever a man's place is, whether the place which he has chosen or that in which he has been placed by a commander, there he ought to remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything but of disgrace. And this, O men of Athens, is a true saying.

This is the truth of the matter, men of Athens: wherever a man has taken a position that he believes to be best, or has been placed by his commander, there he must I think remain and face danger, without a thought for death or anything else, rather than disgrace.

parecerá su conducta poco conforme con estos principios, si no te fijas en que los hombres están poseídos del deseo de crearse un nombre y de adquirir una gloria inmortal en la posteridad; y que este deseo, más que el amor paterno, es el que les hace despreciar todos los peligros, comprometer su fortuna, resistir todas las fatigas y sacrificar su misma vida. ¿Piensas

I throw this apple before you. Take it—if you love me purely, and give up your virginity. Yet if you will not love me keep the apple—and think how long the beauty lasts.

I am an apple, and one who loves you tossed me before you. O yield to him, dear Xanthippe! Both you and I decay.

I'm an apple, tossed here by someone who loves you, Xanthippe. But you should nod assent: after all, you and I will both waste away.