Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Ambrose Bierce

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

Anthony Kennedy

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

Alija Izetbegovic

I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

Alicia Silverstone

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

Aeschylus

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Debi Mazar

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Donald Trump

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Dorothy Day

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

Donald Miller

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

Dalai Lama

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Dalai Lama

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Dalai Lama

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

Diogenes

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

Dada Vaswani

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Dada Vaswani

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

Daisaku Ikeda

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

Claude Vorilhon

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Cornel West

I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

David Platt

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

David Platt

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

David Livingstone

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

David Livingstone

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

David Lloyd George

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

David Lloyd George

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

Coretta Scott King

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Confucius

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

Confucius

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

Curtis Martin

Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now

Curtis Sittenfeld

Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.

Dave Hickey

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.