Quotes About Sacrifice

All the hard work starts in the gym.

'Gypsy' is the ultimate stage-mother story: Mama Rose is the one who should have been a star; she's the one with the talent. But she chose to have kids and put her dreams into them. The musical shows the power of showbiz and how much it can mean to someone.

My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

I've dedicated my life to competitive dancing, so I'd like to pass that on to others. You can't be half-hearted about competitive dancing, you have to be prepared to give your whole life over to it.

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Yeah. He's got a hard-on for mass murder and giving kids cancer and his big old answer to the existential clusterf*ck that is humanity is to nail his own bleeding son to a plank. That is a c*nt move. Come on, even you got to agree with me there. We should lob a f*cking nuke at him, get it over and done with. You know what I'm saying? - Butcher, 'The Boys

In the end, the war in Vietnam was much like any other. There were those who profited. Those it devoured. And then there were those for whom there are no words.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe. Choked on cum...

The sun was shining brightly on the day that I died. It blazed from the heavens. It sang from the skies. On a day the world seemed born again, the HMS Nightingale met her end. She took us with her, every one of us: the Old Man, me, the Doc, the Chief, the babyfaced killer in A-Turret, the fat man from Swansea, all the rest. She took us to the bottom. Saved our souls.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I'm Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

It is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

You are chlorr....... I am the part of her that would not become what she became when I found free magic again and had to make my choice

I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become like the Duke. He has grown too cold form his magic, and has forgotten what it means to love.

I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.