Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It’s an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for. – Susan Vreeland
Because I knew how hard I worked, I knew the pain, I knew the sacrifice, I knew the tears, I knew everything. Despite everything, I stuck to it. I toughed it out, and I kept my head in the game, even when the odds were against me. – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It’s good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. – Tim O’Brien
If you feel very deeply about something, it’s not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that. – Trevor Nunn
One of the reasons I’m reluctant to start a novel is it’s such an obsessive activity. You get in there, you don’t know anything else while you’re in there. And that’s quite a sacrifice to make, especially for us old guys where time is kind of short. You don’t want to disappear for a year; you want to be outdoors. – Thomas McGuane
My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house. – Victor Cruz
We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away. – Stephen Curry
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan. – Sebastian Coe
In life, you don’t get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice. – Stephen Saad
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. – Theodore Parker
I like to be busy. It’s not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it’s definitely worth the sacrifice. – Venus Williams
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn’t sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. – Tom Stoppard
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. – Tim Hetherington
There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. – Simon Sinek
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. – Thich Nhat Hanh
You don’t ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It’s immoral. – Tim Kaine
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. – Vera Wang
I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I’m being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else. – Todrick Hall
I like my body. I don’t want to have to change it for anything – even if that means I have to take a step down as a dancer. I don’t think I’m ever going to sacrifice my figure for anyone else to accept me. – Sarah Hay
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. – Trey Anastasio
I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about ‘what you can do for your country,’ doesn’t even seem to apply to so many people. – Steve Daines
At the New York Harvard Club, they’ve moved the memorial for those who died in World Wars I and II up to an obscure little hallway; they used to be in the main hall, in the most prominent location. The sacrifice of those young people I always found so stunning and so admirable. – Whit Stillman
I’m in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. – Zack de la Rocha
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. – Zubin Mehta