Combat Quotes

519 quotes by 412 authors

• That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever.… — Nicolas Bouvier
• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest… — William Jennings Bryan
• Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly… — Kiersten White
• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. — Max Lucado
• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. — Hillary Clinton
• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."… — Tamora Pierce
• We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat. — Maureen Johnson
• How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. “Improving how exactly?” I asked. “In… — Richelle Mead
• Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish,… — Lee Child
• The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list… — Gail Carriger
• She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes… — Rick Riordan
• You teach combat, I guess.” Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?” Leo glanced at the massive sword on the… — Rick Riordan
• If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. “You share a… — Melina Marchetta
• Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason… — Rick Riordan
• This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan… — John Steinbeck
• Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. — Herta Muller
• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual… — Jimmy Carter
• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens... — Charles Tilly

Who Wrote These Combat Quotes

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

• 9 Combat Quotes by Barack Obama
• 8 Combat Quotes by Manfred von Richthofen
• 7 Combat Quotes by Erich Hartmann
• 7 Combat Quotes by Adolf Galland
• 6 Combat Quotes by Rick Riordan
• 5 Combat Quotes by Phyllis Schlafly
• 4 Combat Quotes by Jim Webb
• 4 Combat Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 4 Combat Quotes by Paulo Coelho
• 4 Combat Quotes by Pope Francis
• 4 Combat Quotes by Sebastian Junger
• 4 Combat Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 3 Combat Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker
• 3 Combat Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 3 Combat Quotes by Joseph Heller
• 3 Combat Quotes by Hillary Clinton
• 3 Combat Quotes by Robert S. Johnson
• 3 Combat Quotes by Bruce Lee
• 3 Combat Quotes by Robin Olds
• 2 Combat Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 2 Combat Quotes by Jeff Cooper
• 2 Combat Quotes by Dick Cavett
• 2 Combat Quotes by Bill O'Reilly
• 2 Combat Quotes by James Mattis
• 2 Combat Quotes by Richelle Mead