Quotes About Sacrifice

Honor is a wonderful thing, but it is a means, not an end. A man who starves with honor does not help his family, a king who falls on his sword with honor does not save his kingdom.

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon? The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.' Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off

Niko, these women deserve better than to have a monster pick them off one by one while those who should protect them say it's alright if they die, as long as they don't spread the pollution of their deaths around.

I will pay you in trouble and terror.

All who ride with Volkhavaar are his, and your young man is his too, even with his black so-curling hair and his sea-smoke eyes, skpah! Better to go with the wolf and say 'Eat me' or to the bear and say 'Hug me' than love him.

Death had been love's price.

Ah, let the poor man have her for the dance. The measure will part them often enough. And a Mercurio consumed by hopeless love is a rare vision for the rest of us.

Even the rich must feed the demons.

Now let's be going before Susina finishes biting the cash, and comes to ravish you." "You paid her. I'm in your debt-" "Yes, yes, and the sun is a vast light, and the world has four corners, and we are all in Lucifer's net. Out of the trap, mouse. The cheese is eaten.

Cold enough to burn, she was yet his dutiful wife.

Wounded healers need bandages themselves. You can't save anyone if you bleed to death.

Civilians had a tendency to fetishize military dead without ever considering how and why they died.

What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is ready to fight for your nation even when your nation isn't ready to fight for you.

I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that's what we've got going here. I was willing to die for you. I'm sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you.

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas. -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

Wage war on death. Live for love.

This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.