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  • Our private property must be sacrificed. -- Dolley Madison
  • I had sacrificed my entire life to play football. -- Brian Bosworth
  • The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
  • I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. -- Jeff Buckley
  • The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. -- Voltaire
  • Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. -- Heinrich Heine
  • The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. -- Ernest Renan
  • The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. -- Mike Krzyzewski
  • When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. -- Paul Klee
  • Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him. -- Annie Lennox
  • Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. -- James Norman Hall
  • My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be. -- Diana Lopez
  • Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! -- Mother Jones
  • I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. -- Siegfried Sassoon
  • I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't. -- Sasha Grey
  • I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. -- Dolley Madison
  • After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. -- Gene Cernan
  • Mandela was true to himself, to his people and his principles. He sacrificed everything because he was prepared to be true to his ideals. You can relate to him whether you come from Manchester or Soweto. -- Justin Chadwick
  • I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. -- Davy Crockett
  • On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. -- Dan Lipinski
  • Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The brave men and women who have served - and those who continue to serve - our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they're overseas and after they return home. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
  • I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. -- Scott Brooks
  • Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. -- Paul Ryan
  • I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces. -- Garry Kasparov
  • Artists must be sacrificed to their art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity -- Jenny Holzer
  • He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP. -- Kevin Durant
  • Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace. -- Toba Beta
  • Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism. -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
  • Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. -- John Ruskin
  • If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us. -- Denis Waitley
  • Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. -- Jean Racine
  • Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke. -- Henri
  • All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point. -- Stephen Curry
  • My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity. -- Lysa TerKeurst
  • I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do. -- Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
  • Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. -- Ayn Rand
  • Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. -- Yuri Razuvaev
  • My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. -- John Green
  • For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. -- Will Durant
  • No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy. -- Marcus Samuelsson
  • In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts! -- Bill Maher
  • There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. -- P.D. Ouspensky
  • The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. -- Amy Lowell
  • She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero -- Rick Riordan
  • Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. -- Epictetus
  • Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. -- Corazon Aquino
  • Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability. -- William Sloane Coffin
  • We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed. -- Justin Bieber
  • To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. -- Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
  • The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family. -- Andy Garcia
  • The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes. -- J. Reuben Clark
  • Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. -- Aloe Blacc
  • I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. -- Pat Nixon
  • I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24) -- P. C. Cast
  • Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful. -- Huldrych Zwingli
  • Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace. -- Widad Akrawi
  • The few things I'd sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it. -- Nicole Williams
  • You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country. -- Rashid Khalidi
  • I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players. -- Charles Haley
  • What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression. -- Camille Saint-Saens
  • The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government... -- Ben Bagdikian
  • If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy. -- Cote de Pablo
  • God pursues me, he sacrificed for me, and he calls me his beloved! And, not just me... all of us. -- Jennifer Rothschild
  • I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life. -- Theobald of Bec
  • The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe. -- Timothy Keller
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  • Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
  • If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate. -- William Easterly
  • willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. -- Lauren Oliver
  • Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • 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
  • The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. -- LeVar Burton
  • Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame. -- Zhuangzi
  • I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that. -- Gennifer Flowers
  • Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed. -- Yoko Ono
  • And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most -- Patrick Ness
  • If we`re going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot. -- Jeb Bush
  • 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
  • Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential! -- Grenville Kleiser
  • Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free! -- Spartacus
  • It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity. -- Ted Chiang
  • The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. -- James Madison
  • I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. -- Amanda Seyfried
  • It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. -- Efim Geller
  • A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. -- Richard Hofstadter
  • The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time. -- Tony Benn
  • Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. -- Emeli Sande
  • 'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it. -- Eli Roth
  • I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion. -- Harbhajan Singh
  • 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 vulnerable. -- Guillermo del Toro
  • So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." -- Brandon Sanderson
  • Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself. -- Anne Desclos
  • Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth. -- Vallabhbhai Patel
  • If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.' -- Sarah Palin
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