Quotes about sacrifice
sacrifice past important
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers. Norbert Wiener
sacrifice boxing getting-laid
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? Mike Tyson
sacrifice common
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. Robert Henri
sacrifice sea rocks
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something. Rick Riordan
sacrifice form bargaining
Sacrifice is a form of bargaining. Holbrook Jackson
sacrifice government hands
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people. John F. Kennedy
sacrifice second-amendment liberty
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
sacrifice patterns kind
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind. Jonathan Kozol
sacrifice often-is self
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. Jonathan Haidt
sacrifice average half
The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more -- perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice. Jonah Goldberg
sacrifice revolution certain
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice Lee Harvey Oswald
sacrifice bird wonderful
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... Laurie Halse Anderson
sacrifice perfection choices
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands. Therese of Lisieux
sacrifice opportunity missing
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
sacrifice practice numbers
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. Terry Pratchett
sacrifice giving trying
Im benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back. Terri Sewell
sacrifice ants bloody
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants Terence McKenna
sacrifice possibility lost
it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities. Simone de Beauvoir
sacrifice balance looks
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. Simone Weil
sacrifice leader energy
Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make. Simon Sinek
sacrifice people leader
We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected,
sacrifice numbers people
A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.
sacrifice balance important
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
sacrifice volunteer leader
Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
sacrifice decision balance
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
sacrifice wind government
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back. Simon Jenkins
sacrifice world produce
No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own. Tite Kubo
sacrifice romantic-love two
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack. Timothy Olyphant
sacrifice ethics given
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. St. Jerome
sacrifice men animal
When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice. Sri Chinmoy
sacrifice men self
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
sacrifice fighting perfect
No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
sacrifice joy focus
See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history begins and ends, all individual lives begin and end, in which every story is told, and finished, and settled for joy or for sorrow: the one point of reference for all the truths that are outside of God, their center, their focus: Love. Thomas Merton