Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Kagawa

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

Joseph Goebbels

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

Joshua L. Liebman

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

Julius Wellhausen

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

Julius Streicher

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

Otto von Bismarck

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Maria Mitchell

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Paul Tillich

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Paul Krugman

To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

John Piper

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

Missy Peregrym

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

Misty May-Treanor

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,

Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

Paul Arden

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

Pat Benatar

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Joseph Sobran

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Nelly

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

Neville Chamberlain

This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: That is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

Nhat Hanh

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Jodi Picoult

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

John Green

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Marquis de Sade

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

Mario Vargas Llosa

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

Marvin J. Ashton

As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.

Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Mia Hamm

I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.

Mia Hamm

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Michel de Montaigne

It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Michael N. Castle

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.