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sacrifice men self
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships. Ayn Rand
sacrifice wanted
I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do. Brandy Norwood
sacrifice meals
Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice. Author unknown
sacrifice thinking
I think I made a lot of sacrifices. Donald Trump
sacrifice people privilege
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. David Livingstone
sacrifice fate hands
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. David Lloyd George
sacrifice standards readiness
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
sacrifice causes willing
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone. Coretta Scott King
sacrifice men parent
The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them. Confucius
fate fish lucky man throw
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
fate heaven soul
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd. John Armstrong
fate feelings fancy
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. P. G. Wodehouse
fate boxing gloves
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
fate water swim
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along. Mary Wortley Montagu
fate dull miserable
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
fate destiny men
No man can be stronger than his destiny. Mary Hunter Austin
fate men doors
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. Marsilio Ficino
fate trying useless
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. Martha Gellhorn
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
hands long people
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. Bobby Seale
hands style hand-in-hand
I knew style and content went hand in hand. Boy George
hands tree use
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then. Aesop
hands plums verbs
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language. Aleister Crowley
hands people enemy
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be. Debbie Ford
hands trying matter
Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing. Doyle Brunson