Combat Quotes · Page 6

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

— William Ernest Henley

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

— Peter R. Mansoor

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

— Sergey Lavrov

During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices.…

— David Halberstam

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to…

— Michelle Bachelet

“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and…

— Norman Mailer

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and…

— Jim Lehrer

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

— Jimmy Carter

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible…

— Matt Shea

In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or…

— Oliver North

So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander…

— Jay Leno

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

— Edward Young

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

When I served in the military, I witnessed the lack of self defense and combat training.

— Anna Paulina Luna

Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Caroline, beside herself, dragged me down to her, her breast was against mine, and by a circular movement seemed to caress it.…

— Anonymous

The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times…

— George W. Dunaway

Many people in Britain will regard the end of combat in Afghanistan as a very good news story, but for many young…

— Philip Hammond

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

— Oswald Boelcke

Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the…

— Jay Leno

I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal,…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival…

— Arthur Cleveland Bent

He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made…

— Tamora Pierce

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

— Michael Hastings