Sacrificaing Quotes & Sayings

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. — Samuel Butler

Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader's Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered living room shelf. — Randy Susan Meyers

Ha! I knew you were into him! Oh my God! Hold my juice - I think I need to break out in a happy dance! Do you know how to do the running man? If so, can you teach me right now? — Elle Kennedy

Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about. — Alison Goldfrapp

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war! — Brandon Mull

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted. — Vera Brittain

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. — Joan Fontaine

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia. — Antal Szerb

Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ... " [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves. — Erica Jong