Combat Quotes · Page 9

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

— Barack Obama

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

— Michael Hastings

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

— W. H. Auden

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

— Pope Francis

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

— Bernard Hopkins

“I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.”

— Sebastian Junger

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

— Ian Somerhalder

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

— Anthony Bourdain

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the…

— Edward Gibbon

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy…

— George McGovern

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

— Salman Rushdie

“Like the structure of a cell or the pattern of genes, combat was only a system. Pure physics combined with a dash…

— Joshua Guess

I'm here to be the greatest combat sports heavyweight of all-time, and if that includes taking out Jon Jones to do that,…

— Greg Hardy

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

— Vanessa Mae

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting…

— Ed Begley, Jr

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its…

— Willie Mays

In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the…

— Alphonsus Liguori

I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking…

— Allen West

Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad…

— Kristin Armstrong

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn…

— Randy Alcorn

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats…

— Andrew Weil

I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have…

— John C. Meyer

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be…

— Nicolas Bouvier

It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate…

— Omar N. Bradley

“The girl moved from throwing weapons to hand-to-hand combat: a punch of power, a sweeping kick of flame. Her flames had become…

— Sarah J. Maas

There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions.…

— Uri Avnery

In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we…

— Barbara Holland

Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II.…

— Len Morgan

On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a…

— Francois Fenelon

“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant…

— Karl Marlantes

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

— Letitia James

I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

— Conor McGregor

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

— Garth Brooks

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

— William James

“Only one of us will need a boat when this combat is ended”

— Joseph Bédier

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our…

— Steve Almond

As a combat veteran, I am keenly aware of the critical importance of authorizing funding for our military.

— John E. James