Quotes About Sacrifice

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself," Chani said.

As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Your Kwisatz Haderach?" "Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug…so many, but none has succeeded." "They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

La vida del profeta nos encierra en su visión —pensó Leto—. Y un profeta solo puede escapar de su visión forzando su muerte de una manera que no había vislumbrado en ella.»

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

Hrvaš li se sa snovima? Boriš li se sa sjenama? Osje?aš li se kao da spavaš? Vrijeme je isteklo. Život ti je ukraden. Potrošio si ga na sitnice, ti žrtvo vlastitih ludosti.

What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?

He felt the liquid gush into his throat as Chani pressed the sack

Usul, você está chorando — Chani murmurou. — Usul, minha força, você está oferecendo umidade aos mortos? Aos mortos de quem? — Àqueles que ainda não morreram.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk," the Duke said, "but when it comes to risking your own family, the element of calculation gets submerged in…other things.

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself

It was the Fremen who took off in that captured 'thopter, Hawat thought. He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?

You have no body shield," Idaho said. "Do you wish mine?" He glanced at the distant cliff. "Not likely there'll be any more lasgun activity about." "Keep your shield, Duncan. Your right arm is shield enough for me.

Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. He died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys?

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith.

but a man that drinks the money for a new baby is gone beyond the beyonds as my mother would say.

I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland.

And I suppose they'll be wanting sugar and milk on top of everything or the might be banging on my door looking for an egg if you don't mind. I don't know why we have to pay for Angela's mistakes. Jesus, says Grandma, 'tis a good thing you didn't own that stable in Bethlehem or the Holy Family would still be wanderin' the world crumblin' with the hunger