Quotes About Sacrifice

no sacrifice no victory

Quand je tire mon archet, c'est un petit morceau de mon cœur vivant que je déchire. Ce que je fais, ce n'est que la discipline d'une vie où aucun jour n'est férié. J'accomplis mon destin.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

We find the Mayan pantheon peculiar. By our standards, suicide and human sacrifice are unacceptable. We tend not to notice the peculiarities of our own culture. We accept the thousands of children who wear braces to correct their teeth, yet we consider the Maya odd for filing teeth to beautify them. Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.

Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country's predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.

Often and again, the troops around Richmond were without beef — once for twelve days at a time; they were often without flour, molasses or salt, living for days upon cornmeal alone! and the ever-ready excuse was want of transportation!

I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

My love," he said, his voice intent, "you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

Honor, duty, and love. He would not sacrifice Anna for his father and all the other werewolves in existence. Given a choice, he chose love. The decision left him feeling oddly peaceful, if more than a little selfish..

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

if I had to crawl to do so. I would have walked through Hell to get back to you, and only failed because of the weakness of my body, not of my heart.

Might not be able to save you, old son," Adam said, lying back again and closing his eyes. "But I can buy us a little time to kick you in the butt hard enough you stop thinking about 'tomorrow and tomorrow' and start thinking about how much but hurts.

I don't wear a cross. As a child, I'd had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the instrument of Our Lord's death- I don't know why people think a torture device should be a symbol of Christ. Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that's my interpretation. Maybe other people think of religion and God differently than I do.

He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia

Lugh's walking stick ate the Gray Lord's spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.

For her he shook like an alcoholic in need of his gin, because he felt she needed to know her options, no matter how his wolf felt about losing his mate. Her knight, indeed.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.