Combat Quotes

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 said. Together, they charged.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

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 the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

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

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

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 after the combat.

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

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 yourself for the rest of your life.

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

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 hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

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 it all you like. But it's truly different.

Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.