I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Livingstone explored for the rest of his life, enduring fevers, torrential rains, animal attacks, threatening tribes, and countless other hardships. Once when… — Richard M. Hannula Copy Share Image
“People who love as you do, with that plentitude and fire, always forget what others experience. The lover is not the one… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When I left my home within society to live amongst the Grizzly's I went there so that I could sacrifice myself to… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What about you?You stay by my side day and night and take the hardest hits of them all.Why,Will?Why have you stayed with… — Courtney Allison Moulton Copy Share Image
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual,… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“The Council of Trent declares: " If anyone saith that the Sacrifice of the Mass casts a blasphemy upon the most holy… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“However, regarding sacrifices, one irony persists almost universally: the act of sacrifice was just opposite to its motive. People killed someone to… — Ajay Kansal Copy Share Image
“Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, struggle, and suffering are tireless exertions of dedicated individuals. Its another's wrongful deeds that always seem bitter, with there various evasive-adverse-effects.… — Travis Long Copy Share Image
“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. Love concentrates so intently on… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I love the game. But I love my wife and kids more. I can't tell you how many sacrifices I make throughout… — Eric Weddle Copy Share Image
“His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great,… — Clemence Housman Copy Share Image
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I… — John George Haigh Copy Share Image
“The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that fasting is. When you give a gift… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Rock Creek is sacred and holy ground. How tremendous their heroism in the face of odds that are almost impossible to understand.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
“You wander through this city, and wonder if anything you do will make up for the horror that keeps the world turning.… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image