There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself stretched to terrible proportions once inflamed the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Hairdressers are professional gossips when only the hands are busy the tongue is seldom still.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

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.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.