Sacrifice Quotes

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

I’m not really the sacrificing type.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

One of the biggest sacrifices in running for President, if there is one, is the loss of anonymity.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

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

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

Love is nothing but giving, tolerating and sacrificing.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.