It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here sacrificing everything. There are people out here on the road with me with kids and families, and they're out here busting their backs for me.
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.
I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
People talk about the term 'sacrificing your body' and I've done that.
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
I’m not really the sacrificing type.
I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.
Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
For isn't that what unconditional love is - sacrificing a little bit of your own happiness so someone else can have theirs?
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.
I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.
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.
Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.
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.
I'm working hard. I'm putting in the hard work. I'm sacrificing. I ain't asking for no handouts. I'm going to earn everything I'm given.
That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.
I enjoy sacrificing myself for my teammates.
Love is nothing but giving, tolerating and sacrificing.
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.
Sacrificing high quality for speed, it just isn't worth it.
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Make sure you aren't sacrificing function for fashion. A great shoe has both.
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.
I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.
The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.
I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.
Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?
I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.
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