Quotes About Sacrifice

For the king, love like an alter fire, eternal

Losses are inevitable on the battlefield, of course, but in my view, no one's expendable apart from the enemy; angry, resentful troopers aren't going to cover my back when the las-bolts start flying,

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. MARK TWAIN

Why was she so ready to forfeit her own happiness when no one demanded it of her, only her own misplaced sense of duty?

y supo que si alguna vez había sido feliz fue al precio de una noche como esta en la que la vida terminaba...

Tutto quello che importa si ottiene con un po' di dolore. La storia si lava solo con il sangue.

it saves bother to get an animal to walk to the slaughterhouse rather than having to drag it there. And

He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

Surrender gracefully. In time you'll find it was worth the sacrifice. But it will require time and patience and perhaps most important, a sense of humor.

Sometimes I'll regret the things I gave up," Elise said. "But isn't that always the way? Everyone makes choices and most people doubt themselves at one time or another.

No one ever does anything out of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well, and I need my sleep.

No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well , and I need my sleep.

Because we'd all been handed heaven on a silver platter, and instead we'd kicked it away and asked for hell.

And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too?

First, there were the are-we-going-to-have-enough-money-to-pay-the-rent arguments. Then came the health problems that sidelined her father from work. Then Anita had to move in because they couldn't afford a nursing home anymore. Miranda juggled three jobs to make ends meet, barely seeing Jasmine and Ruby.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.