Quotes About Sacrifice

it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause

Irakl?lar ne zaman oy verme f?rsat? yakalasalar, yaÅŸamlar? pahas?na da olsa milyonlarcas? sand?k ba??na gidiyor. Ä°ntihar sald?r?lar?n?n ve bomba yüklü araçlar?n tehdidi alt?nda, seçim sand?klar?n?n önünde kuyruk oluÅŸturmay? kabul edecek baÅŸka bir halk var m?? Bu halk?n m? demokrasiyi istemediÄŸi söyleniyor?

Eure Lippen haben sich gestreift, sind auseinander dann, Als sei euer Anteil am Glück bereits verbraucht und als hättet ihr Angst, vom Glück der anderen schon zu kosten. Ihr wart unschuldig? Wovor hat Unschuld je bewahrt? Selbst der Schöpfer sagt uns, wir sollen zu Festen Lämmer schlachten, Nie aber Wölfe...

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking about

Others were of humbler background: those farmers who found themselves forced to kill off their piglets in a time of hunger because FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Administration ordained they must;

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well. *

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

As Bill Coffin put it, "We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.

a toy made of her own blood,

For Chinese people, when it comes to parents, nothing is negotiable. Your parents are your parents, you owe everything to them (even if you don't), and you have to do everything for them (even if it destroys your life).

Real deprivation is not being able to afford the things that are high on your priority list.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

And as I said, 'I wish I could pass this through the television set,' it just dawned on me—that was very much like the Eucharist, how [food] could be broken and offered to nourish others. And yet there was no way I could put that food through the television set, so I said there are other ways of sharing.

A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied.

God. No wonder it was so easy. He's been bleeding since he was a baby. He just never told anyone. How do you even know it hurts after all that time?" Because you loved me, and I knew what it meant to feel.

This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live.

Maybe that's why his lovers hadn't worked out so far. Maybe before you got someone who would fight to have you, you had to be ready to kill or die for them first.

You love him, man," was what Jensen did say. "You love him so much, you're making plans to go to hell for him.

Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they're trying to buy your soul?

He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe that's what made them great.

Now go bring back someone's head on the front of your Lexus for Mommy, okay?" Ellery's mother to him