Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
~By Henry Taylor ~
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
~By Jason Kidd ~
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
~By Zack Wamp ~
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
~By Ross Perot ~
It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
~By Mia Hamm ~
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
~By Idi Amin ~
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
~By Dick Morris ~
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
~By Dean Kamen ~
I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
~By Mick Taylor ~
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
~By Alexandra Kosteniuk ~
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
~By Pauline Frederick ~
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
~By Gene Tierney ~
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
~By Betty Dodson ~
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
~By John Warner ~
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
~By Pat Nixon ~
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
~By Michael Novak ~
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
~By Anatoly Karpov ~
If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.
~By John Salazar ~
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
~By Ernest Istook ~
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
~By Susan Collins ~
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
There is no rank in sacrifice.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.
~By Andre Braugher ~
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
~By Marco Rubio ~
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
~By Ed Pastor ~
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
~By Steve Prefontaine ~
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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 - or their beliefs - or sex.
~By John Osborne ~
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
~By John Buford ~
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.
~By John Boehner ~
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
~By John White Geary ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
~By William Barclay ~
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
~By Charles O. Finley ~
The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
~By Hugh Douglas ~
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.
~By Steve Buyer ~
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
~By Tom Coburn ~
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
~By Zack Wamp ~
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
~By Mother Jones ~
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
~By Omar Bongo ~
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
~By Olympia Brown ~
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
~By Aaliyah ~
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
~By Jerome Isaac Friedman ~
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
~By Mia Hamm ~
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
~By John Engler ~
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
~By Voltaire ~
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
~By Aime Cesaire ~
We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.
~By Jim Walsh ~
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
~By Anne Perry ~
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
~By George A. Smith ~
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
~By Allen Boyd ~
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
~By Felix Adler ~
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
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