Quotes About Sacrifice

You stole it all! My youth, my work! Everything!

Le désir, dit-il, c'est avoir quelque chose à gagner, et l'amour quelque chose à perdre.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

In Cambodia, it's unfortunately common for husbands both to drink and to beat their wives. Other families are abandoned, left to fend for themselves. Instead, my husband runs through the city for the better part of the night to make sure that his wife and son are safe.

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats.

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats. We wanted change. Could the new leaders be any worse than those who had just been overthrown? I would find out that very day.

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

War had turned out to be far more

Let us weep," Rondon would tell them, "for I loved this man who has perished for my sake. But I command you to do as he did. Never shoot." Rondon believed that his mission in protecting and pacifying the Indians was larger than his own life, larger than any of their lives. He would rather die than surrender his ideals, and he obliged his men to follow suit.

Das Roß fegt dahin zwischen sanft geschwungenen, grauglitzernden Buchenstämmen — quer durchs deutsche Märchen, durchs nächtige, reiten die Vettern hinüber zum Hohlweg, zum Treffpunkt — hinter sich verbrennend alle Schiffe und Brücken.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need to risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

John Kennedy once made the point that assassins could not be stopped because "all anyone has to do is be willing to trade his life for the President's.

Around the age that most children attended kindergarten and are entrusted with blunt-tipped scissors, River had the massive responsibility of supporting his family.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I'll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything ." She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me." "Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.