I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady...

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie...

Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us...

A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice.

You don’t get it, Clary. You don’t understand what it’s like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it’s not your fault. It’s just how you were brought...

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely...

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to...

You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be...

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Even if it takes ‘the one’ to ride on my back, I will step in the Dark for them to see the Light

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very...

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

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to...

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting...

It isn’t sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.

A man doesn’t have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say...

I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote...

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one...

The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a child by a parent.Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a...

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Don’t sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past… It’s gone! Learn from it and move on…

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire...

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Look at his track record. How does he do it? He just has an air about him. Players respect him. They know he’s been successful wherever he’s been. So they are willing to make the...

My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.”The traditional thing,” he said slowly, “involves the river and a sack.

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images....

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

…my mind drifted to my family. I thought about how I had the opportunity to serve them. I didn’t have to carry them across a freezing river in the middle of a snowstorm or give...

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything – even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing...

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave… Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.” -Amalia Milthorpe

Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica, too, had been forced into a great sacrifice because of Cadderly’s choice. He sensed an anger within her,...

And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke,...

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion. But...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips–thechoice is mine.I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.I am grace.I plunge in...