Combat Quotes
519 quotes by 412 authors
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Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine…
— Dick Cavett
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Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat,…
— Rorion Gracie
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One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
— Paul Keating
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To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will…
— Tariq Ali
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The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
— Seneca the Younger
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To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy…
— Dave Barry
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This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels.…
— Cynthia Heimel
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And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
— Pierre Corneille
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be…
— Dale E. Turner
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Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring…
— Asger Jorn
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China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird…
— Wen Jiabao
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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
— Martin of Tours
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same…
— Rachel Carson
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I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's…
— Frederick Lenz
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The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that…
— Frederick Lenz
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In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands…
— Jonathan Gottschall
Who Wrote These Combat Quotes
412 authors contributed a total of 519 Combat Quotes, led by these top contributors: