Quotes About Sacrifice

If you have a chance at real happiness, whatever the cost, you have to take it.

There were many, so many men and women, beginning with my own mother, whose courage and sacrifice inspired the memory of them.

Suffering, Khaderbhai once told me, is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.

Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here.

I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.

soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it.

love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

mi?o?? to droga jednokierunkowa. Mi?o??, tak jak szacunek, nie s?u?y do brania, tylko do dawania.

And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

One of the agonising truths for a battle medic is that you pray as hard and almost as often for men to die as you pray for them to live.

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars.

I looked at the face—the long, fine nose and wide brow and upward curving lips—and wondered, not for the first time, and not for the last, if my love for him would cost me my life.

but for now, it is important to know that any time a husband and wife contracept, they are saying to each other, "I just want the parts of you that make me feel good; I don't want the parts of you that make me commit to you for life and enable us to celebrate a love so powerful it could become its own life." That

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.

My father was in the First World War.

My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.