Top 1200 Last Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

I'm just so honored I got the chance to represent our country. I was always willing to put in the work, the sacrifice, to do so.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.

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

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

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

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

Whatever your goal is: dedicate yourself to it and it's going to be a lot of sacrifice, but if you love what you want to do, it shouldn't be a problem.

I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

I believe in the idea of sacrifice and fighting for what's right and giving something back to the country that's given me so much.

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

When I go to America, I'm fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there - to New York last October, November - I went and explored. I went to the rough areas - to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.

It was not easy, but I think Girls' Generation members showed each other a lot of sacrifice, dedication, and responsibility.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.

He had a sort of positive effect - you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

I am not going to disconnect from Bollywood or sacrifice my career in the industry for international projects. Everything began here, and I respect that.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.