Combat Quotes

519 quotes by 411 authors

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and… — Tim Holden
My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around. — Mario Andretti
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century.… — Michael Douglas
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any… — Ernest Hemingway
An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. — James Mattis
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without… — Emanuel Lasker
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams
Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to… — Karl Marlantes
One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That… — James Ohlen
Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went… — Kameron Hurley
By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful… — Yoshiyuki Tomino
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the… — James G. Stavridis
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and… — David Halberstam
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,… — Michael Hastings
I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in… — Nathaniel Fick
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that… — Bob Proctor
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...Thatâ€™s why, over the past six years, weâ€™ve done… — Barack Obama
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred… — Gabrielle Giffords
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. — Noam Chomsky

Who Wrote These Combat Quotes

411 authors contributed a total of 519 Combat Quotes, led by these top contributors: