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What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
Simone de Beauvoir
The fate of the Jewish people is the fate of Macbeth who stepped out of nature itself, clung to alien beings, and so in their service had to trample and slay everything holy in human nature.
Hasdai Crescas
The peach trees in the orchard behind the house are just in full flower. Tomorrow we will institute a sacrifice there and solemnly declare our intention before Heaven and Earth, and we three will swear brotherhood and unity of aims and sentiments: Thus will we enter upon our great task.
Luo Guanzhong
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare
Notes: After Eggsy steps on a landmine, Merlin pushes him off and takes the blast himself to distract the guards. As they come closer, he sings this song and steps off the podium, causing it to blow up killing himself and the guards.
Ken Ogata
Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
Tupac Shakur
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
For love of our Almighty God, the Lord of all,
Who would not die; a stock, a block, we needs must call.
Rumi
I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.
Fannie Lou Hamer
If my home country needs my life, I am ready to give my life — for my country, for my children, for the future.
Vitali Klitschko
You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
Ingvar Kamprad
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh
Sarojini Naidu
That's how much we love Michael. We love Michael so much, we let the first kid slide.
Michael Jackson
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe
Anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken. I have so much admiration and respect for officers and the families of officers who sacrifice themselves to keep us safe. But let's be clear: I am against police brutality and injustice. Those are two separate things.
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter