Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Cantona

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Enzo Ferrari

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Gabriel Iglesias

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

Franz Liszt

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Christopher Bond

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

George W. Bush

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

George W. Bush

As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

George R. R. Martin

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

Frederick Douglass

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

Felix Klein

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Ezra Taft Benson

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

Euripides

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

Francis Chan

Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.

Francis Chan

The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.

Francis Chan

True love requires sacrifice.

Francis Atterbury

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

Fidel Castro

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Helen Keller

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Catharine Beecher

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

Serj Tankian

Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.

Jared Leto

Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

Janet Fitch

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

Jane Powell

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.

Ernest Renan

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Muriel Rukeyser

Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Kumi Naidoo

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

Jim Butcher

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

George Herbert

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...

Buzz Aldrin

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.