Top 1200 Last Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest salary.

A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"

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

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

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.

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

In the football world, we throw around words like 'sacrifice,' 'hard work' and 'hero.'

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

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

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our body or soul go to heaven? What was the name of the book? The Da Vinci Code. Who is seated at the last supper? Well, as brilliant as Da Vinci was, he didn't know anymore about who was seated at the last super if there ever was a last super than you or I or Yogi Berra. Well, no one is bringing anything new to the table.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country.

For the last two years, since I left IMPACT in 2018, I've spent basically the last two years just trying to be healthy, be strong, be ready for when that opportunity comes and I sort of felt like that's what I've been putting into the universe.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.