Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. – Betty Dodson
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they’re clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I’m not worried about whether I’m clever. – Amity Shlaes
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. – Charles de Gaulle
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. – Barack Obama
I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause. – Bhagat Singh
I’m so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice. – Ben Foster
I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. – Bill Gates
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other. – Alva Noto
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. – Auberon Herbert
I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution… Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. – Ariel Sharon
The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered. – Chris Christie
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. – Charlie Dent
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that. – Anatoly Karpov
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything. – Carli Lloyd
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. – Boris Spassky
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. – Antony Beevor
Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project. – A. R. Rahman
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. – Bruce Barton
We know there isn’t anything we can say or do that will bring their loved one back. What we can do is support them and honor their sacrifice by doing everything we can, every day, to make our communities stronger and our nation better so that we may be a people worthy of their sacrifices. – Chris Gibson
I just want my career to be ran a certain way. When you get the sense it’s not, that your voice is not being heard, then, unfortunately, you have to do certain things to make a stand to fight what you believe in, even if you do have to sacrifice time. – Andre Ward
We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people’s rights. This is not something the west should be happy about. – Ai Weiwei