Combat Quotes

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I'm like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can't walk in heels.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.

Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

Always turn and face the attack.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always liked the active things.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.