Combat Quotes · Page 8

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

— James McCloughan

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

— Caspar Weinberger

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

— Erich Hartmann

“In combat - do something, you might die. Do nothing, and you will die!”

— Jury Nel

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

— Manfred von Richthofen

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

— Jeff Cooper

“I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.”

— Jarod Kintz

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially…

— Kathryn Bigelow

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up…

— Frederick C. Blesse

I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

— Cory Barlog

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:…

— Honore de Balzac

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

— Kofi Annan

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

— Laura Jane Grace

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

— Fred Richmond

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat…

— Wole Soyinka

People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this;…

— Frederick Lenz

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the…

— Michael Gerber

[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

But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all…

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center…

— John Bruton

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple…

— H. L. Mencken

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would…

— James Carroll

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted…

— Chalmers Johnson

...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not…

— Hillary Clinton

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…

— James Salter

I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack…

— John Trevor Godfrey

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

— Epictetus

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

— Sting

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

— Lights

I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.

— Tammy Duckworth

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

— Adolf Galland

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

— Edward Young

“Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.”

— Peter Duysings

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a combat zone. People who say it isn't have already lost the war.”

— Elena Dunkle