Quotes About Sacrifice

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Then the Nazis offer them hope, and they ask themselves: What have I got to lose?

Dinamarca ha demostrado que una pérdida parcial de independencia, debida a las exigencias de la guerra, no tiene por qué conducir necesariamente a penalidades y pruebas indebidas.

British soldiers were "lions led by donkeys.

El comunismo es una misión sagrada. Está por encima de todo lo demás, incluso de nuestros lazos familiares y nuestra propia seguridad personal».

The fact that you're ready to give up your life's work to live with me is ... it almost breaks my heart that you should love me so much. But I don't want to be the woman who took you away from the work you loved.

its young soldiers across no-man's-land to be mown down by machine guns. Again and again the newspapers hailed a victory, but the telegrams told another story.

RevoluÈ›iile sunt mereu violente, fiindc? oamenii vor ucide întotdeauna ca s? nu piard? puterea. Cu toate astea, ele au loc deoarece vor exista mereu oameni care îÈ™i vor închina vieÈ›ile cauzei libert??ii.i.

We must help them, even if they have the plague. Our lives are not our own, to be protected like gold hidden under the earth. We have given ourselves to God, to use as he wishes, and he will end our lives when it suits his holy purpose.

Her love was not weak or inadequate. It just presented her with impossible choices.

When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.

But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to--

McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

Meg kell neked is érteni, hogy amint valaki a másiknak a segítségére siet, maga fedezetlen marad.

I love them but I cannot give myself for them.

In North America, human sacrifice was practiced by the Heron and Pawnee tribes, although evidence now suggests that a particularly brutal form of ritual immolation was carried out by the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, ancestors of the Hopi, Zuñi, and Pueblo. Like the Maya and Incas, the Anasazi have become a focal point for intense, especially New Age, beliefs.

Compromise is the seed that kills destiny.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.