Quotes About Sacrifice

It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

America owes a debt of gratitude to all service members who have fought to preserve the freedoms we all know and cherish today.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

As a mother I had to sacrifice a lot due to the pressing demands of my career.

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and into the safety of the perimeter.

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

I actually gave up playing darts for three years after my little boy was born.

Without my family, it wouldn't have been possible to do what I have done. They know I play darts for them - that everything is to give them a better life.

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

Everything I do, I do for my daughters.

It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.

I am one of the crucified dead.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.