Quotes About Sacrifice

Memphis stared into the fire. "Why are we trying to save this country? What's it ever done for us?" In his mind, he could still see those words on that hateful sign. "Maybe we should just let it burn. Maybe we should let the King of Crows have it all." Bill let the question sit for a long time. "It's the only country we got, I reckon." "That's a bullshit answer," Memphis grumbled. "Only answer I got, too.

All the hurt, fear, and rejection you have ever felt is what the Lord Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Every month I watched my father scrape to pay his bills, sending Mother a monthly child-support check from which neither Joy nor I ever saw a dime.

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

If flying meant that much to him, how had it felt to set himself a course that would deny him what he wanted most?

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible. He'd been wrong.

Dar mai exista o particica a mintii ei care crezuse intotdeauna ca a iubi inseamna a renunta la o parte din controlul asupra propriei tale persoane, iar ea pretuise acest lucru mai mult decat orice om pe care il cunoscuse

Lily stepped back to admit him, her gaze catching on the chocolates again. It was Caleb's aim to make her look at him just the way she was looking at that red satin box. He extended the candy and knew by the pleasure in her eyes that she'd received few gifts in her life. And for one insensible, fevered moment Caleb wanted to give her everything. He wanted to drag the world to her feet and make it bow.

Lindsay McKenna

Seeing you dumpster diving the other day, I meant To say hello and toss you a quarter, but the Secret Service wouldn't allow it. Plus, it would look phony, For I did shove you out into the cold years ago. Had to, or I wouldn't have made it this far, so Just be glad for your old buddy, as you chew Wet french fries and suck on leftover ice. [Barack Obama to his soul]

Absurdly enough, not even Central Europeans who had served in the Foreign Legion had been exempted from internment.

The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.

Just as Adam stole the fruit of a forbidden tree and caused all within him to die, Jesus died on a barren tree and thus became its fruit that all in him might live.

I want to cry but I don't. I don't. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

Kendinize ait parçalar vard?r, say?s?z parçalar, bunlar? bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazs?n?z.

So let's catch this son of a bitch, so I can return to my classes, and finish up my degree. Then I'll join law enforcement, neglect my own family, and the cycle will be complete.

For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who'd saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.

The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved.

Slivers of privacy in an arrangement where my younger brother is also living, sleeping, waking right beside me. And maybe I don't mind. I protected my baby brother from our father. I led him from our collapsing house. Even now, I have promised us both a better future.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.