Combat Quotes

519 quotes by 411 authors

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda… — Barack Obama
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction… — David Perkins
This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat. — Kofi Annan
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The… — John Beddington
Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global… — Jay Leno
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting… — Alexander Hamilton
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a… — James Madison
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of… — Adolf Hitler
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. — Mac Barnett
Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect… — F.X. Toole
The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive… — Greg Nickels
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In… — Bruce Lee
There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost… — Tom Brokaw
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt — Lucy Liu
Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions… — Gregg Braden
I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got… — Bill O'Reilly
The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness. — Josh Radnor

Who Wrote These Combat Quotes

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