Quotes About Sacrifice

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!

One has given one's white-gloved hand to hands that were steeped in blood and conversed politely with men who have personally slaughtered children. One has waded through excrement and gore; to be Queen, I have often thought the one essential item of equipment a pair of thigh-length boots.

Giving in order to get is not giving.

No es necesaria la crucifixión para lograr la resurrección. Hay formas más sencillas de alcanzar el cielo.

El amor no mata para salvar.

With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.

As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there's nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality.

When there is a need for heroes and they are so inconsiderate as not to invent themselves, others take up the task for them.

I'm not a hero. I'm not Resistance. I'm a stormtrooper.

This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it, I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me. I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece but I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right, a help, a love, a you, a wife.

Michael, it's terrible to say so, but sometimes you have to weigh the cost of one man's life against the value of an entire operation.

thirty-one of the first forty U.S. Post Office pilots were killed in the first six years).

The seat I had taken was marked for the use of the elderly and handicapped, but had another claimant come, a figure like Charles, for instance, I would have been prepared to leave the train, when my stop came, with a lurching gait or limb held awry to designate my previously unguessed incapacity.

Such is the cost immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past.

The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

If we loved Steve Aylett , really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

Love. His love for Cathy and the kids. That had been one of his protective mantras, he was certain, except love just made things crueller, gave you so much more to lose.

We do what is in us, and why it is in us, that is also a secret. It is Christ in us, crying that men may be succoured and forgiven, even when He Himself is forsaken.

Yes. That's why I left the Necromancer Order. It's why I chose to fight alongside the man who'd murdered me and my family. It's why I fought on the same side as the man who murdered … well, you know what I'm referring to, don't you, Skulduggery? It's also why I betrayed Abyssinia. That's not over yet, by the way. The consequences of that partnership? It's not over for you.

I was Skulduggery Pleasant's partner," said Crepuscular. "And he left me to die.

This book is dedicated to Iron Man. Tony Stark stopped Thanos and saved us all and I, for one, will never forget the sacrifice he made. Also to Natasha Romanoff for yeeting herself off that cliff.

At times, I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt.