Quotes about sacrifice
sacrifice government purpose
What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism? James Madison
sacrifice able moments
To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become Eric Thomas
sacrifice thinking iraq
Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. To deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think does a great disservice...the progress has been immense. John McCain
sacrifice men chess-game
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men Savielly Tartakower
sacrifice ucla years
At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance. Michelle Malkin
sacrifice unconditional-love way
Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves. Michelle Obama
sacrifice animal vegetables
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. Michael Pollan
sacrifice eating-well pleasure
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.
sacrifice people shadow
The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other. Neil Gaiman
sacrifice serious-person doubt
I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil? John Wesley
sacrifice rivers might
Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice. John Stephens
sacrifice men deserve
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. John Stott
sacrifice men essence
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
sacrifice screw-ups longing
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. John Piper
sacrifice way spirit
The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit. Seth Godin
sacrifice overcoming poor
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves Slavoj Zizek
sacrifice fighting love-is
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail. Sister Souljah
sacrifice winning games
Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future. Rajneesh
sacrifice people individual
Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves. Soichiro Honda
sacrifice scary serendipity
I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me. Michelle Rodriguez
sacrifice giving enormous
I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another? Michael Moore
sacrifice victory great-victory
With great victory comes great sacrifice. Theodore Roosevelt
sacrifice men culture
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. Theodor Adorno
sacrifice long rewards
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Michael Lewis
sacrifice opportunity order
US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe is essentially sacrificing its opportunities for trade and investment in order to remain part of NATO. It is also agreeing to bomb Syria and the Near East, creating a wave of refugees that it doesn't know what to do with.
sacrifice self society
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. Eric Hoffer
sacrifice self despair
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
sacrifice self movement
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.
sacrifice self political
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. Enoch Powell
sacrifice self people
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice. James Cook
sacrifice literature littles
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. James Allen
sacrifice law everyday-things
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. James Anthony Froude
sacrifice religion firsts
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.