Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“The right choice often requires hard work and self-discipline, or self-sacrifice; don't be enticed by apparent short-cuts that seems right but end… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
I love how people like to underestimate me before they actually know who I really am. No matter what you do to… — Skylerbling Copy Share Image
“You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“My Dad did nothing to elevate himself, for selflessness was a trait within himself that compelled him to live outside of himself.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in… — Stephanie Golden Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“St. Vincent and I didn't expect to fall in love. It caught us both unaware." "Yes, but how did you know?" "It… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice,… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career:… — Graham Potter Copy Share Image
“I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
“You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
There would come a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person started hating us but because we… — Raina Chapman Copy Share Image
“SERVICE, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I love you, my sunshine. And that’s what happens when you love someone. Sacrifices stop being sacrifices simply because they make you… — Evelyn Skye Copy Share Image
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time… — Lando Norris Copy Share Image
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