Quotes About Sacrifice

That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

I'd live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just be together.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

Doesn't it strike you that the one person I save every day is a person who doesn't even want to live? Doesn't it make you feel completely redundant?

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are.

don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Isn't it better to arrest and prosecute a hundred innocent people and catch among them one spy than to let the spy go free?

My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe.

Better that ten innocent people should suffer," he said, "than one spy get away.

Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist takes when he is ready to give up his art.

A friend of mine tells a story about some Israeli students who were called up in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As soon as they were notified, they went back to their rooms at University, and each packed his gear, a rifle, and a book of Yehuda Amichai's poems.

Don't shame him! Your father is very proud. You don't know this, but he graduated from the best college in Korea, the very top, and he doesn't need to talk about selling fruits and vegetables. It's below him. He only does it for you, Byong-ho, he does everything for you. Now go and keep him company...I would learn in subsequent years that he had been trained as an industrial engineer, and had actually completed a master's degree.

I told him I would go up there; he said no, no, everything was fine. I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. He was fast asleep; after the stroke he sometimes nodded off in the middle of things. I woke him, and when he saw me he patted my cheek. 'Good boy,' he muttered. I made him change his clothes and then fixed us a dinner of fried rice from some leftovers.

Twenty-five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free. Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were

Sweetheart, Bill said formally, I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

Eric: if Sookie had died, I would let you suffer. Bill: if Sookie had died, I would already be dead.

I'm taking your eye first, in case you want mine too.

Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.

At club level you have a lot of lads getting paid and stuff like that, but you would play for your country just for the love of playing for your country. That's the truth, for me anyway.