Quotes About Sacrifice

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

At least he's alive and well. I love him enough that I want that. I want him to have what's best for him." She sighed. "I just don't want to stick around to watch.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

Is she forever for you then? She's worth throwing it all away?" "She's it. No one else. She's all I'm ever going to want.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake." "And yours," he said before he could stop himself.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

All that he has ever asked of us, of me, and Spinnock Durav, and so many others, he has given us in return. Each and every time. This... this is his secret. Don't you understand, High Priestess? We served the one who served us.