Combat Quotes · Page 7

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

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

— Garth Brooks

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

— Mary-Louise Parker

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

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

— D. A. Carson

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

— Walid Muallem

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to…

— Kathryn Bigelow

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

— Adolf Galland

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

— Todd Duncan

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but…

— John C. Meyer

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in…

— Phyllis Schlafly

There's nothing like experiencing the sights and sounds of a live robot combat event.

— Grant Imahara

Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only…

— Claude Bernard

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me…

— Romain Rolland

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to…

— Brian Kilmeade

Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But…

— Michelle Malkin

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and…

— Hillary Clinton

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

The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How…

— Greg Nickels

A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill…

— Anonymous

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

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've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had…

— Bill Burr

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical…

— David Sedaris

As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose…

— Chuck Yeager

Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in…

— Francis Quarles

“Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

— Oswald Boelcke

I went to Juilliard, for God's sakes. I know a little something about combat.

— Danielle Brooks

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

— David M. Shoup

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

— Brian Hanrahan

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

— Adolph Malan

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

— Richard Marcinko