Quotes About Sacrifice

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing—although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.

I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven.

Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

Could she give Doro what he wanted—what she herself had wanted for so long—children who would not die?

I like Curtis Talcott a lot. Maybe I love him. Sometimes I think I do. He says he loves me. But if all I had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, I think I'd kill myself.

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

They forced you to have kids?" the man asked. "One of them surprised me," she said. "It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for." "Was it?" "Yes." She shook her head from side to side. "Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.

There's always a lot to do before you get to go to heaven.

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

There's always a ot to do before you get to go to heaven.

They forced you to have kids?" the man asked. "One of them surprised me," she said. "It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for." "Was it?" "Yes." She shook her head from side to side. "Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.

Luffy: "Shanks you arm!" Shanks: "Its no big deal. Just one arm. I'm glad your safe

Only when you are prepared to die will your courier shine

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

You can have my jellyfish I am not sellyfish

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely; and we have even transfigured the gory image of Mars. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.

And Golgotha," he utters, barely audibly, "is, among other things, death for the sins of others. Also, you could say, a way of tidying up, of leaving things clean. Someone has to do it when too much stuff piles up. A way of purifying the system, according to the law of large numbers: many, many small Calvaries...

It would be better even that a great people should be destroyed than that the whole race should be thrown into turmoil.