Best Sacrificed Wisdom
263 Sacrificed quotes by 234 unique authors
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a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
— P D Ouspensky
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In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they…
— Carson McCullers
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So why the sudden girlspeak, Urian? Neither one of us is really into discussing our feelings…and no offense, I like the fact we don’t. (Acheron)…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the…
— P. C. Cast
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
— George Eliot
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
— Ayn Rand
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be…
— Michael Sandel
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
— John Green
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If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
— Ismail Kadaré
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Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates…
— Rick Riordan
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the…
— William P. Young
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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it." "I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement. "Men are pigs," Murphy said.…
— Jim Butcher
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only:…
— Pablo Picasso
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"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've…
— Aldous Huxley
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them…
— K.P. Yohannan
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At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
— P D Ouspensky
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But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same…
— Darynda Jones
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I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush…
— Anais Nin
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I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.
— Lauren Oliver
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She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a…
— Michael Crichton
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In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us…
— Timothy Keller
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