The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of the ages may be preserved
by quotations.


- Isaac D'Israeli
Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Noah and the Whale

"You can give up anything when you're following your heart."

- Noah and the Whale, 'My Broken Heart'

Thursday, December 23, 2010

W. B. Yeats

"Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart."

- 'Easter 1916' by W. B. Yeats

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Charles Du Bos

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

- Charles Du Bos, French critic