Best 168 quotes in «combat quotes» category

You can keep your paper promises and all your worldly treasures. But you cannot buy peace of mind or escape from the headstone garden. Lyrics from "Headstone Garden" by the Troubled Land Band at the Independence Day celebration 12 years after the impact that destroyed civilization.

You can only pretend that you're already dead and thus free yourself up to focus on three things: 1) finding and killing the enemy, 2) communicating the situation and resulting actions to adjacent units and higher headquarters, and 3) triaging and treating your wounded. If you love your men, you naturally think about number three first, but if you do you're wrong. The grim logic of combat dictates that numbers one and two take precedence.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

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

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

[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.

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

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

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

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

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

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

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

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

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

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

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

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

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

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

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

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.

One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

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

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.