Martyring Quotes & Sayings

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. — Ambrose Bierce

Do not ever think you are better than someone, I will not tolerate that in my classroom, there is no one here who is better than someone else, I have just witnessed expressions on the faces of some of you that indicate you think you are better than someone else, and I will not tolerate that in my classroom, I will not. — Elizabeth Strout

Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that some things are important enough to fight for and realize there will be sacrifices along the way. — Maria V. Snyder

He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess. — Banana Yoshimoto

Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause? — Janine Mendenhall

In contrast to the 'Europeanism' and the 'popular foundations' of his brothers, he seems to represent ingenuous Russia - oh, not all, not all, and God forbid it should be all! Yet she is here, our dear mother Russia, we can smell her, we can hear her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What could she do who would not cast away magic and leave the home that an ageless day had endeared to her while centuries were withering like leaves upon earthly shores, whose heart was yet held by those little tendrils of Earth, which are strong enough, strong enough? — Lord Dunsany

When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years. — Jeffrey Gitomer

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. — Louis C.K.

Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken. — Jenny Han

The small heart cannot break. The ecstasy of its penalty solaces the large. — Emily Dickinson

No more martyring myself. — Sharon E. Rainey