Quotes About Sacrifice

That frail and stooped old man is Bud Day. That is Misty 1.

Krulak had done the right thing, but there is often a price to pay for doing the right thing.

Pluck my heart From my flesh And eat it.....

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there... Closing his eyes, he then slumps against the wall, as if the words he has spoken has used up all his energy.

Of course, there is often nothing worse than war and violent death. But a truism that bears repeating is that peace, as a primary goal, is dangerous because it implies that you will sacrifice any principle for the sake of it.

Grace doesn't sell; you can hardly even give it away, because it works only for losers and no one wants to stand in their line.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

You went to meet the shell's embrace of fire On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day The war seemed over more for you than me, But now for me than you—the other way.

Our sacrifice—the best we have to offer, And not our worst nor second best, our best, Our very best, our lives laid down like Jonah's Our lives laid down in war and peace—may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. 'May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.

There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge." THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988

Christ did not die merely to display God's love -- He died because God is love. (I John 4:8)

The ancient Greeks, Bowman said, echoing his response to the Munich terror, believed the Olympic arena so sacred they stopped their wars for them. Now we believe our wars are so sacred we sacrifice Olympics for them.

That's not what I'm saying. Your best might not be good enough. This is my wife here. This lady means everything to me in the world. I hear you. But—

That is the attitude we need today. That is the "Battle Hymn of the Republic": the soldiers who sang that they would die to make men free.

Why are you willing to protect me?" Because no matter how much she fussed and snarled, it was music to his ears. When he breathed in her scent, he was in heaven. And when he gazed into her sky-blue eyes, an eternity wasn't long enough. But he couldn't tell her that, so he shrugged. "I don't like people to be unhappy.

In just a week, he'd taught her so much. That good, honorable men like him stayed the same after death. That she'd existed for too long with only hatred and revenge in her heart. Love was a much nobler cause to live for. Love didn't follow its own selfish agenda; it was willing to make sacrifices for others. How strange that it took an undead man to show her how to live.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.

You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.

he had done the right thing without thinking, and had lost everything in the process.

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. For you, he said. I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.