Famous Quotes & Sayings

Granth Sahib

I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

Richard DeVos

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

William Robertson Smith

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

William S. Burroughs

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Sarah Ban Breathnach

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Wilhelm Steinitz

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Yngwie Malmsteen

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Winston Churchill

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

William Faulkner

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Joseph Heller

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Michel Leveille

He's a big part of our power play. But hopefully the depth of our team will show here. Damon is a really skilled player and really knows how to play the game. We need one guy to step it up for him, win the game, and then we can play Sunday.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

His strongest selling point is his international reputation as a diplomat. He has the gravitas, the intelligence and the depth to be worthy of this post.

Andy Cole

There is good depth to the squad and everyone can see what a quality player Wayne Rooney is,

Tanith Lee

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and heights, the pain and joy. Life.

Lori Rubino

I think we have the potential but it is not going to be an easy season by any means. We have a lot of depth in our seniors. Most of them have started since they were sophomores, so they are a strong unit.

Robert Schumann

It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart

Mohandas Gandhi

Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

Vincent Van Gogh

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

Yukio Mishima

I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit. The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.