Quotes About Sacrifice

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

Love is my religion--I could die for it.

I can bear to die - I cannot bear to leave her.

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again -- my Life seems to stop there -- I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving -- I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.

John Gibson Lockhart, writing in Blackwood's Magazine, described Endymion as "imperturbable drivelling idiocy". With biting sarcasm, Lockhart advised, "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes

Better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose your love because of your ego

I could be martyr'd for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.

The war was and is reality for me.

Yes, he had practically saved my life. He had also practically lost it for me.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result of the war—roughly 90 times the number of Americans who died. Victory could hardly have been purchased at greater cost: the U.S.S.R. in 1945 was a shattered state, fortunate to have survived. The war, a contemporary observer recalled, was "both the most fearful and the proudest memory of the Russian people."2

1969, doscientos estadounidenses morían semanalmente en Indochina. Cuando Vietnam del Sur se rindió, en 1975, habían muerto por salvar ese país 58. 213 soldados de Estados

I got up alone the next morning in the darkness, and kissed my children good-by as they lay asleep in their beds.... [F]or the first time there was brought home to me a tiny part of that vast human misery summed up under the term of war-time separations. During the next four years, I was destined to see my children only on rare and brief occasions; and it was a loss which no victories, no reparations, no acquisitions of power could ever make good.

Brunei ants even have guards that explode their own heads when threatened

To contribute to the war effort, citizens across the country endured the "meatless days" during the week, the one "wheatless meal" every day.

meal" every day. All these sacrifices were of

Better choices require some thought and sacrifice but are respectful of other thoughtful and innovative animals with which we live. And ultimately our tough choices will sustain our natural diversity.

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.