Quotes About Sacrifice

Nothing but my devotion to you would make me, at this stage of my career, turn horse thief—and thief of such a horse. Let me help you in.

She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.

She thought: "They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't. I think that shows Rhett's good sense.

Negroes were provoking sometimes and stupid and lazy, but there was loyalty in them that money couldn't buy, a feeling of oneness with their white folks which made them risk their lives to keep food on the table.

marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude

He was excited by the war fever and pleased that Scarlett had made so good a match, and who was he to stand in the way of young love when there was a war? Ellen, distracted, finally gave in as other mothers throughout the South were doing. Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.

La vita di Elena non era facile né felice, ma lei non si era aspettata che fosse facile e, quanto alla felicità, quello era il destino della donna. Il mondo era degli uomini, e lei lo accettava. L'uomo era lodato per l'ordine della sua proprietà e la donna lodava la sua abilità. L'uomo muggiva come un toro se una scheggia gli si conficcava in un dito e la donna soffocava i gemiti quando metteva al mondo un figlio, per timore di disturbarlo.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.