Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aime Cesaire

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

William Shakespeare

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

Bill Moyers

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Aaliyah

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

Aaliyah

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Joseph Campbell

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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.

Joan Chen

I'm being more selective. I don't think I've made any sacrifices or anything.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Ingvar Kamprad

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

J. C. Ryle

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

J. C. Ryle

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Isaac Watts

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Hannah More

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Harold MacMillan

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Gwen Stefani

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

They sacrificed a lot for us down the stretch. There was a lot of selflessness on this team.

Neil Gaiman

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.

John Wesley

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 Stephens

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 Stott

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

John Stott

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.

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.

Seth Godin

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.

Slavoj Zizek

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

Sister Souljah

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.

Rajneesh

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.