“The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.” IfsWorldLevelsClassSacrificeEthicsPerformancesDancingIntenseGet UpWork EthicFiniteRehearsal Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.” MenSelfSometimesFormClassSacrificeObjectsDutyEternalVillainHeroismNeverthelessLowestScornImpressiveGrandeurSelf SacrificeAscent Book:De Quincey's works Source: De Quincey's works
“The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.” IfsKnowsWorldBelieveRunningClassKindnessRiskSacrificeBearsExerciseDegreesEndurance Book:Duty Source: Duty
“Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.” KnowsClassSacrificeSeriesMannersPettyGood MannersConsiderateBe ConsiderateConsiderate And Caring Author:Ann Landers
“We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.” PeopleWantNeedsAblePainOrderClassSacrificeMiddleRepublicanDemocratInvestmentAddressesMiddle ClassDeficitImperativesReduction Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.” MeanPoliticalPoliticsPleasureClassSacrificeCitizensSpendingIncomeMailLexicon Author:George Will
“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.” IfsBelieveHumansWellsMayI CanSelfOpportunityInterestingClassSacrificeHuman NatureListeningHabitCircumstancesSickIntelligentInstanceFollyAttachmentHeroismVolumeFortitudeChamberMost InterestingResignationArdentGreat OpportunityDisinterestedAnne Elliot Author:Jane Austen
“High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.” PeopleChildrenMotherPleasureQualityClassWifeSacrificeWillingHundred Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.” MenWellsKindMeanStillsDifferentDoneFactsNamesReligiousClassSacrificeHonorOfficeDignityFinancialDemonBelongingFuneralDifferent KindsOfferingIdolatryHomageDead ManExhibitionsDepartedImpurity Author:Tertullian