Famous Quotes - Tags - Sacrifices

  • ... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or... More
  • ...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything... More
  • A dead martyr is just another corpse. More
  • A man must be sacrificed now and again
    To provide for the next generation of men. More
  • A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and... More
  • A: “Life is a sacrifice.” B: “You go first.” More
  • About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from... More
  • After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. More
  • America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. More
  • And as long as this is not part of you,
    This die and become,
    You are but a somber... More
  • And like a little beast,
    Dappled and without horns,
    That scampered on the... More
  • And the god, having given all,
    Is freed forever from his thrall. More
  • Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?—Just stop to consider whether... More
  • Don’t sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful. More
  • Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. More
  • Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
    The gradual... More
  • hair and hide
    a sacrifice of blood and flowers
    on his altar
    if any... More
  • He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of... More
  • I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. More
  • I am a tainted wether of the flock,
    Meetest for death; the weakest kind of fruit
    Drops... More
  • I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. More
  • I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
    All night’s fathomless wisdom come,
    That I had shorn my... More
  • I missed my chance with one of the lords
    Of life.
    And I have something to expiate;
    A... More
  • I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the... More
  • I respect the ways of old folks, but the blood of a rooster or a goat cannot turn the seasons,... More
  • I think there is choice possible at any moment to us, as long as we live. But there is no... More
  • I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only... More
  • I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth. More
  • I wish I were where Helen lies,
    Night and day on me she cries;
    And I am weary of the... More
  • Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of... More
  • In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years,... More
  • In the genuine hope that this peace will be permanent, we take the opportunity to pay homage to... More
  • It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my... More
  • It is too early to love. We will by the right to do so by shedding blood. More
  • It was a hated judgment, O slender-girls.
    The contest of beautiful-face by... More
  • Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. More
  • Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
    Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the... More
  • Life itself, my wife, and all the world,
    Are not with me esteemed above thy life.
    I would... More
  • Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and... More
  • Miss Caswell: Now there’s something a girl could make sacrifices for.
    Bill: And probably... More
  • Mr. Romney, the Kennedys are not in public service to make money. We have paid too high a price. More
  • nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in... More
  • Near by is an interesting ruin—the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple—a place where... More
  • O but we talked at large before
    The sixteen men were shot,
    But who can talk of give and... More
  • Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy... More
  • Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of... More
  • Our age is an age of moderate virtue
    And of moderate vice
    When men will not lay down the... More
  • Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
    Be found acceptable in Heaven’s sight.
    And... More
  • Renunciation: that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to... More
  • Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the... More
  • Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business. More
  • Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. More
  • Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. More
  • She comes to meet death,
    To stain the altar of the goddess,
    To hold her... More
  • Slaughter before,
    fragment of burnt meat,
    deep mystery, grapple of mind to reach
    the... More
  • The darkness of a day elapsed,
    of a day nourished with our sad blood. More
  • The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and... More
  • The innermost meaning of sacrifice is the annihilation of the finite just because it is finite.... More
  • The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. More
  • The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting... More
  • The tumult and the shouting dies;
    The Captains and the Kings depart:
    Still stands Thine... More
  • The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every... More
  • The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first... More
  • There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. More
  • There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. More
  • There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for... More
  • They come like sacrifices in their trim,
    And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
    All hot... More
  • They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and the ranks are growing thinner, but let... More
  • Too long a sacrifice
    Can make a stone of the heart.
    O when may it suffice? More
  • Tortures are to them what joys are to us. More
  • Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children,... More
  • Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
    The gods themselves throw incense. More
  • We are the sons and daughters of the world they saved. [Now is our moment] to make common cause... More
  • We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by... More
  • We sing the funeral, as goes the custom, with the hymn of the Dead. But Manuel, he chose a hymn... More
  • We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that... More
  • We will win this war because we are willing to sacrifice 10,000,000 lives. How many lives is the... More
  • What did I know, what did I know
    of love’s austere and lonely offices? More
  • When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has... More
  • When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we... More
  • With sympathy and with reverence we greet you on the soil ennobled by the blood of your... More
  • Your lamb shall be without blemish... More
  • ‘Erle Dowglas, for thy life,
    Wold I had lost my hand; More

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