Combat Quotes · Page 10

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

— Adolph Malan

Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the…

— Paulo Coelho

I feel like human beings are made to combat viruses. We have systems in place in our bodies to combat viruses.

— John Dolmayan

Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.

— Niki Tsongas

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor.…

— Janeane Garofalo

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it…

— Michael Apted

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or…

— Hillary Clinton

The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

— Werner Molders

We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under…

— Russell M. Nelson

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although…

— Homer

Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a…

— Bill Goldberg

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to…

— Boyd K. Packer

I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single…

— Cassandra Clare

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.…

— Jose Rizal

The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when…

— Horst Faas

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are…

— Anonymous

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must…

— Bertolt Brecht

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him…

— Epictetus

“Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds…

— Norman Mailer

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,…

— Alexandre Koyre

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or…

— George W. Bush

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

— John Keegan

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens...

— Charles Tilly

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

— Paul Yingling

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know…

— Socrates

“The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat?” “So did the six-year-old girl, ma’am. Actually, she beat the instructor also.”

— James Patterson

“Unless all other means have been exhausted, the battle is nothing more than a bar fight taking place in a room that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They Served ...reliving memories that will not die giving their all for you and I - friends taken lives shaken...”

— Muse

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

— Charles Lamb

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

— James Mattis

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

— William Ernest Henley

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

— Jeff Cooper