Quotes About Sacrifice

Love is both useful and powerful -- but seldom convenient. ~ Asil

But I know war. And every day I can hold it off is valuable to me, and to its victims.

Love is both useful and powerful—but seldom convenient.

All honor to him, then...To die killing one of the dark-bound evils is not a bad thing, Mercy.

I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it.

I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

This is also the season when the women drink the blue-black juice of the marking nut tree to do away with the babies in their wombs—the ones who would be born only to be buried next season.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.

I could save Cat Neely and her mother. If only Anna would give me that coin.

The English had an army, and souls of vinegar, and they had killed and killed, and we were still not free.

I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.

Over 300,000 veterans from the U.S. armed forces, from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, have been laid to rest in these 612 serene acres overlooking the Potomac, and more than 100 graveside services are still held every week—so many that the cemetery is projected to run out of space by 2020.

Perfect love. It means love that goes on doing until there isn't any more to be done, and that goes on suffering until it can't suffer any more. That's why, when Jesus hung on the cross, He said, 'It is finished.' There wasn't one sin left that couldn't be forgiven, not one sinner who couldn't be saved, because He had died. He had loved perfectly.

The cross is the place where we see love made perfect.

Crack seemed to have a different hold on folks than liquor did. Drunks would sober up and come to their senses in the morning. But once a crackhead got hooked all they did was chase that high. Even if it meant selling everything they owned for a hit: wedding rings, household appliances, their kids' clothes. Anything that had been important didn't matter anymore.

I sacrifice everything to the music of the words.

La nuit avance ainsi, dans l'hécatombe des héroïsmes et le hasard des survivances.

If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.

Yersin không tin l?y m?t giây vào m?y cái ?i?p khúc cách m?ng. Gi?t ng??i ?? nuôi s?ng nh?ng gi?c m?.

women and children – the 'useless mouths', Churchill chillingly called them – had been abruptly and inefficiently shipped out at the start of hostilities so that the colony could become a garrison.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.