Quotes About Sacrifice

He never counted what it cost him; he never looked back.

He so nearly understood. I'll marry you, Hank, if you bring me to live here at the Landing. I'll swap New York for this place but not for Maycomb.

Bir askerin tehlikeli, may?nl? bir bölgeden geçmesini saÄŸlayan türden bir cesaret deÄŸil bu. O, mecbur olduÄŸu için toplad??? bir cesarettir. Bu cesaret türüyse -ÅŸey, bir insan?n yaÅŸama azminin, kendini koruma içgüdüsünün bir parças?d?r. Bazen yaÅŸayabilmemiz için az?c?k öldürmemiz gerekir.

Oh, not the kind of courage that makes a soldier go across no-man's land. That's the kind that he summons up because he has to. This kind is- well, it is part of one's will to live, part of one's instinct for self-preservation. Sometimes, we have to kill a little so we can live, when we don't-when women don't, they cry themselves to sleep and have their mothers wash out their hose every day.

In the dim past, Atticus had owned an old canvas-top touring car, and once when he was taking Jem, Henry, and Jean Louise swimming, the car rolled over a particularly bad hump in the road and deposited Jem without. Atticus drove serenely on until they reached Barker's Eddy, because Jean Louise had no intention of advising her father that Jem was no longer present, and she prevented Henry from doing so by catching his finger and bending it back.

We have to do a lot of things we don't want to do, Jean Louise." She blazed. "What kind of answer is that?

Why did you take so much trouble with me today? I know how you hate to move out of that house." "Because you're my child. You and Jem were the children I never had. You two gave me something long ago, and I'm trying to pay my debts. You two helped me a—" "How, sir?

There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

But to die – actually to die – that's an honour only ever granted to the living. The cost of admission.

An oak stump might cost a man a week of his life.

If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

I was reborn, she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. You were reborn, Tengo said. Because I died once. You died once, Tengo repeated. On a night when there was a cold rain falling, she said. Why did you die? So I would be reborn like this. You would be reborn, Tengo said. More or less, she whispered quietly. In all sorts of forms.

People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given

Strange as it may seem—or perhaps it does not seem so strange—they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

The warmth and the pain came as a pair, and unless he accepted the pain, he wouldn't feel the warmth. It was a kind of trade off.

That box contains the 'something' that was inside you. You didn't know that when you carried it here and gave it to Keiko with your own hands. Now you'll never get it back.

I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot.

Only by taking his own life was my uncle able to recover his humanity.

She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.