#sacrificed

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#been #begin #casualty #first #lie

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#mother #sacrificed #uniformly #wife #woman

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed. ↗

— Pauline Frederick

#had #i #i think #kind #sacrificed

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#evolution #individual #may #meeting #much

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. ↗

— Felix Adler

#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America. ↗

— Joe Biden

#another #auto #automobile #automobile industry #back

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#death #desire #die #even #everything

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. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story. ↗

— Len Wein

#concerned #good #looking #looking good #more

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#building #entailed #growing #growing up #had