I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

I didn’t sacrifice everything for love, just my mother when love required a caesarian.

We won’t die. We’ll never die. I promise. He’d promise anything, meant it, would die defending this man, would live and die and suffer for him.

Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was...

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering...

… to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her… he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was…She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to...

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:’Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is...

He turns to leave, stops, looks back at me. “Just so you know: What you did for Victor means a lot to us. You could have left him to die.””No, Richard, I couldn’t.”I see in...

So che, rifiutando a mia volta di accettare un compromesso con i fondamentalisti e con i signori della guerra, o di annacquare le mie denunce nei loro confronti, protrò finire con l’essere annoverata anch’io nel...

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy...

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

I haven’t been around here for long. Well… actually, I haven’t been around anywhere for long. I don’t know who I am, or what I’m here for. I know that Lord Umber’s important, though. I’ve...

I was just looking for a ball over the plate and get it into the air (for a sacrifice fly), … The worst thing you can do is hit a ground ball.

Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.

If we have to sacrifice more to be better, that’s what we have to do.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible...

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was...

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, “Greater love hath no man–” and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.

If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it.

I am just going outside and may be some time.” Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty...

Jesus came to give us life. We don’t have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all...

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn’t a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your...

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

But he was there.Day and night he was there for me,risking his very existence to protect me from a war that claimed my life over and over again.He never faltered,never wavered,never feared for his own...

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let you sacrifice me!

There is no rank in sacrifice.

March of the Penguins, … the motion picture this summer that most passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing.

If everything’s a rush, nothing is.

It still hurts,” she whispered. “Even when you’re doing it for someone else, that doesn’t stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.

…I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven’t forgotten a thing. So why did we...

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

But once in a while . . . I don’t know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I’ll plunge away and never come...

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.

…And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive or oncealive, who stand behindthe ones I have imagined,who took into their mindsthe troubles of this place,blights of love...

God’s glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

What if I said I wanted a friend?’ The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. ‘Or a lover? That’s how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a...

If I don’t have anything to sacrifice, I don’t have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end...