Quotes About Combat

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

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The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

A ty zabija?e? ludzi"?.-"Raz musia?em dobija?. Ale zazwyczaj zajmowa?em si? wywiadem, pisa?em raporty".-"A co czu?e?, jak strzela?e? do tych ludzi?". Odpowiedzia?em bez wachania: "To samo, co czu?em, patrz?c, jak inni strzelaj?. Gdy istnieje taka konieczno??, staje si? niewa?ne, kto to robi. Poza tym uwa?am, ?e patrz??, ponosz? tak? sam? odpowiedzialno?? jak ci, co strzelaj?".

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar.

I kicked Beaky Nose in the nuts with the toe of my shoe, very, very hard. I have big feet and my shoes have steel toes. This is never good news for the sorry son of a bitch whose balls get in the way of my rage issues.

I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in. I don't believe in rules and I don't believe in fair fights. You want a fair fight, join a boxing club. I also don't believe in dying for my country. I have a kind of General Patton take on that: I think the other guy should die for his.

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Combat with these weapons is face to face, hand to hand, personal. When face-to-face combatants share a common tongue, complex speech occurs between them. The American Civil War was the last time in our own history when both sides spoke the same language.

Thoughts of suicide are common symptoms of combat PTSD. Paradoxically, they are also signs of life. If a person enters the zombielike state of indifference beyond despair, rage, suicidality, and fear, he or she simply dies. This is the testimony of concentration camp survivors and combat veterans. The ability to kill oneself is the bottom line of human freedom. Many combat veterans think daily of suicide. Knowledge that one has this freedom seems to be sustaining.

We had a profound time with the terrain and the weather. The terrain was -- I think the terrain equaled the NVA, it was so bad. It was so goddamn bad. By the time you got into a fire fight or something, you were so fucking tired I don't think you cared that much. Don't care. That's the way I see it.

En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l'adversaire en faisant en sorte que ce dernier ne vous arrache pas les bras pour vous assommer avec.

And saw a field mouse whistling through the air in a karate attack position, claws out, hind legs foremost—right at him.

War! that mad game the world so loves to play.

She was busy trying to stab me to death with her umbrella and I was busy trying to dodge." He made a little face. "She was better at her stabbing than I was about dodging.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

Si hay lucha y esfuerzo, se puede ir hacia lo mejor; si hay dejadez, desidia, abandono y poco espíritu de combate, todo se va deslizando hacia una versión pobre, carente de aspiraciones, de forma que surge lo peor de uno mismo.

Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings

It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.

the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today's kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching

once the actual combat began, chivalry was dead.

Wit and its employment as a weapon not only in political combat but in playing with one's friends was at the core of the Goostree's Gang.