Combat Quotes · Page 16

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history…

— H. L. Mencken

I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop.…

— Gunther Rall

The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it…

— Gail Carriger

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

— Salman Rushdie

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat…

— Gene Wolfe

It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,…

— Robin Olds

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can…

— Charles B. Rangel

I think all members of Congress are very concerned about the fact that, while we want to see our law enforcement agencies…

— Saxby Chambliss

Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

— Paul Keating

Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority…

— Kim Jong Il

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human…

— Diane Ackerman

I would have said get out of Syria; get out - if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power…

— Donald Trump

I've worked on a lot of fighting games, so I was very used to the idea of combat sounds.

— Matthew Mercer

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

— Bernard Hopkins

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped…

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Horst Faas

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

— John Romero

Cain Velasquez, for my money, is the most intimidating force ever in heavyweight combat.

— Chael Sonnen

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

— Edward Gibbon

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead…

— Oliver P. Smith

[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it…

— Vincent de Paul