Quotes About Sacrifice

The men and women that have served this country, I'm forever indebted to them.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

It's really indescribable. All the hard work you put in and all the sacrifices.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

Ihn dazu anzustacheln. mich zu lieben, erschien mir fast als ein Verbrechen. Wie sollte ich von ihm eine Liebe verlangen, die ihn krank machte vor lauter schlechtem Gewissen, während sie mir einen zusätzlichen Grund zu leben lieferte?

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.

Ogni suo passo parlava di angoscia e di abnegazione, ed il figlio alto e lontano sentiva che non avrebbe mai potuto ripargarlo, nemmeno in parte centesimale, nemmeno col conservarsi vivo.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

To me it appears that the names of those ought to be written in letters of gold, who died so cruel a death, for the service of God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness, and to procure wealth which all men desire.

Joy is in the gift of the Church; whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share. Whatever you did against the Church, has been done against joy. I'm not stopping you from calculating the procession of the equinoxes or splitting the atom. But what would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?

People can say that I became famous because of 911. I became America's top cop, cultivated a political profile, wrote books, became a security consultant. But I'd give anything for that day not to have happened. I wish it hadn't. But it did. And I happen to be there at the time. I was there, and I did the best I could do under the circumstances. It's all any of us did.

I have learned to value the things others are reluctant to give.

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself.

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.

Iga kirg väärib ohverdusi ja kannatusi.

Utilitarians are often immensely conscientious people, who work for humanity and give up meat for the sake of the animals. They think this is what they morally ought to do and feel guilty if they do not live up to their own standard. They do not, and perhaps could not, ask: How useful is it that I think and feel like this?

N"ayez pas peur du kamikaze. Ce qui l'intéresse dans le risque de mort, ce n'est pas le risque, c'est la mort. Ce qu'il aime dans la guerre, ce n'est pas "vaincre ou mourir" mais mourir et ne surtout pas vaincre. Sa grande affaire, ce n'est pas, comme dit Clausewitz, proportionner des efforts à la force de résistance de l'ennemi, le renverser, le réduire - mais mourir. (ch. 16 Debray, Kojève et le prix du sang)

and she asked herself – how can I rise above my situation in order to raise my child as the sole wage-earner in a parenting situation of one?