Quotes About Sacrifice

Our options are limited. Do we want to be wet tonight or hungry tomorrow?

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone [...] Even at detriment to yourself.

What could you possibly offer me that is worth the price of remembering?

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To

I can't tell you that," Denna said. "You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.

Si fuera más joven, rechazaría tu ofrecimiento-dijo dando un suspiro-. Pero el orgullo es el lujo de los fuertes.-Puso una delgada mano sobre mi brazo y lo utilizó como punto de apoyo para ponerse de pie-. Yo debo optar por ser gentil. - La gentileza es el lujo de los sabios-dije con soltura-. De modo que se puede afirmar que la sabiduría aporta gentileza.

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone," I said. "Even at detriment to yourself.

Todo vuelve a las cenizas, así que esta carne también arderá. Pero yo soy Tehlu. Hijo de mí mismo. Padre de mí mismo. Yo estaba antes, y estaré después. Si soy un sacrificio, lo soy únicamente a mí mismo. Y si alguien me necesita y me invoca de la forma correcta, volveré para juzgar y castigar.

After a few moments my back began to ache with the pressure of supporting her weight and my own. My leg started to go numb. Her hair tickled my nose. Still, I didn't move for fear of ruining this, the most wonderful moment of my life.

Eres demasiado buena para mí. Eres un lujo que no puedo permitirme. A pesar de todo, insisto en que hoy vengas conmigo. Te invitaré a cenar y pasaré horas hablando extasiado del inmenso y maravilloso paisaje que eres tú. Me puse de pie y la ayudé a levantarse.

Conozco a uno que una vez tuvo que abrirse una vena para escribirle una nota a su amada. Dramático, es cierto. Simbólico, también. Pero ademas, doloroso, poco higiénico y considerablemente macabro. Desde entonces siempre lleva consigo pluma y tinta.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

Interviewer: In terms of the wider mythology for your world, do we detect Christian influences? Pat: What it has is the archetype of the self-sacrificing god. But honestly, by the time Jesus did that, it was old news. A bunch of people did it before Jesus—and, to be fair, some people did it better

weigh your risks. How badly do you want it, how badly are you willing to be burned?

There is no joy!" Lanre shouted in an awful voice. Stones shattered at the sound and the sharp edges of echo came back to cut at them. "Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing." Selitos saw nothing but emptiness behind his eyes.

Ma koliko ti nešto delovalo privla?no, moraš da odvagaš kolikoj se opasnosti izlažeš. Koliko silno to želiš i koliko si spreman da se ope?eš. Marten

To ash all things return, so too this flesh will burn. But I am Tehlu. Son of myself. Father of myself. I was before, and I will be after. If I am a sacrifice then it is to myself alone. And if I am needed and called in the proper ways then I will come again to judge and punish.

the thing before it was burned. One of them had been wounded and the others had been drinking. The priest had seen it

And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost.

Porque durante toda su vida no había hecho más que renunciar, pero nunca había poseído y perdido.

Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded.

As a wise man named Ben Franklin once said, those who would sacrifice liberty for security desire neither. I

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. - Gloria