#sacrifice

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#am #cinema #i #i am #important

Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#both #children #devoted #others #sacrificed

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

— Ronald Reagan

#economic #ever #gain #her #ideology

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#earnest #earnestly #ever #failure #freely

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

#class #even #income #mail #means

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#day-in #day-out #difficult #hardships #how

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity. ↗

— Voltaire

#charity #sacrifice #beauty

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#death #empires #sacrifice #death

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#always #any #blood #earned #followers

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#everyday #form #law #positive #sacrifice