Quotes About Sacrifice

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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 druther not.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y

He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.

Ä°nsan; her zaman, ona en büyük zihinsel rahatl??? getirecek olan ÅŸeyi yapacakt?r - zira bu onun yaÅŸam?n?n yegane yasas?d?r. AÄŸlaÅŸan ailesini geride b?rak?r; onlar?n rahat?n? bozduÄŸunu için üzgündür, fakat onlar?n rahatl???n? korumak için kendi rahat?n? feda edecek kadar deÄŸil.

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;