Quotes About Sacrifice

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

It takes everything I've got to offer, but not more than I wish to give.

Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?

At that moment, he knew what death really meant and he was afraid. There was no adventure in it, no sense of purpose or choice, nothing but a sickening disgust and shock. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. Nothing was worth such terrible slaughter—nothing.

It takes everything I've got to offer, but not more than I wish to give." He pointed.

I am the mother of this child. I am the one who carries it in her body. I am the giver of its life. Yet I have almost nothing to say about its coming into the world.

Don't be so quick to steal away what that sacrifice meant by insisting it was your fault.

It is one thing to say you will do anything for your friend, but another entirely to actually do what is needed.

There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.

Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.

I love her too much to keep her from leaving

War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

I want you to use me to create a Confessor.

When he died, he told himself, he would have all eternity to rest. If he wanted to live, if he wanted others to live, it was going to take effort.

Come to me, my love. I want you very badly right now." He nodded and started to reach for the Agiel on the side table. Denna touched his wrist. "Tonight, I want you without the Agiel. Please? Teach me what it's like without the pain?

Nothing gained without cost is valued. I was reminded of that fact only today. She was the one we buried. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it, so that all will value and preserve it.

No. As Zedd is fond of saying, nothing is ever easy. How can we justify going after one little girl, to solve the riddle of her loaf of bread, while Rahl goes after the box?

Sometimes doing what you would most like to do can be the very worst thing to do. Sometimes to accomplish what you want in the end, you have to hold back in the beginning. - Zedd (Pg.161)

We know, better than most, perhaps, that soldiers are charged with protecting peace and life itself. The balance to that is that we sometimes must take life to stay an enemy who would do greater harm. For this, we are remembered, not for the lives we try to preserve.

Zedd had told him that living for those you love was the best part of living. Richard

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).