Quotes About Combat

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

Love, Medicine, and Miracles by the Yale surgeon Bernie Siegel (New York: Harper & Row, 1986). Dr. Siegel began his career as a surgeon, became aware of the social and psychological dimensions of cancer, and began to work with patients accordingly. His book is highly inspirational and, because of its popularity, has introduced many people to the idea that the mind can be mobilized to combat cancer.

The musket made the infantryman and the infantryman made the democrat.

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.

It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.

battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

They would work from dawn till dusk, studying and practicing weapons craft and battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

When we get to Macindaw,' he said, 'let's just send him up the ladder with those planks. He'll clear the defenders out in no time.

Risks are for them as fight me

Dat lijkt me nauwelijks een eerlijk gevecht,' zei de baron. Maddie deed expres alsof ze hem niet goed begreep. 'Ik weet het,' zei ze. 'Maar ik beloof hem niet heel erg pijn te doen.

Ach, als ik maar niet te dicht bij hem kom, als ik hem maar niet tegen mijn schild laat meppen, als ik maar niet tegen een stormram aanloop en zijn aanvallen niet probeer te pareren met mijn zwaard. Al met al een fluitje van een cent, als ik dat zo hoor. Help me eens met die armstukken, Will. Dan ga ik naar buiten om hem af te maken. - Arnaut

To a Skandian, my boy, all war is business.

Give an enemy one chance to surrender. But one chance only. After that, take action.

You know," he said to Halt, without any trace of a smile, "it might have been simpler to have the two girls board her with their practice swords." They exchanged a long look, then Halt shook his head. "I needed to leave some of them alive.

do was let the Ranger get on with thinking, while he took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way.

You can't beat a right hook in a situation like this,' Thorn replied.

War without fire', said Henry V, 'is like sausages without mustard.

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.

War is personal, kid. You're surrounded by other soldiers, but you're fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don't signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look.

lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.