Quotes About Sacrifice

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

He's complicated and complex, a labyrinth I want to lose myself in. He's my fighter, and I really want to fight to be with him.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.