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Quotes About Sacrifice

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
~ Lionel Trilling
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
~ Anais Nin
One must lose one's life to find it.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
~ Boris Becker
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
~ Camille Paglia
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
~ Harry Browne
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.
~ Jean Rostand
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
~ Jim Bouton
The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.
~ Jim Stovall
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
~ Zach Wamp
Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.
~ Russ Roberts
We all owe death a life.
~ Salman Rushdie
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
~ Sean Hannity
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
~ Simone Weil
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
~ Simonides of Ceos
Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.
~ Steve Tesich
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
~ Thomas Mann
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
~ Vance Havner
Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.
~ Wes Borland
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag
~ Piers Morgan