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Quotes About Combat

In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. Will he aim at your enemy? — From Cantra yos'Phelium's Log Book (quoted in many
~ Sharon Lee
Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
~ Patricia Briggs
I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
~ Garth Brooks
I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.
~ George Foreman
In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.
~ Jon Jones
Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.
~ Jonathan Eig
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
~ Rita Moreno
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
~ William S. Burroughs
In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?
~ Michelle Yeoh
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.
~ Rick Riordan
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
~ Emory Upton
It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.
~ Mary Balogh
All warriors are brothers in arms, whether they fight for the Light or the Dark. We are fated always to make war on our own kind.
~ Mary Gentle
Ninjas didn't fight like the samurai. They didn't have a set of rules to follow.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
This book is a salute to the scientists and the surgeons, running along in the wake of combat, lab coats flapping. Building safer tanks, waging war on filth flies. Understanding turkey vultures. T
~ Mary Roach
Whereas the larger caliber .45 Colt revolver bullets caused the cattle to drop to the ground after three or four shots, the animals shot with smaller caliber .38 bullets failed even after ten shots to drop to the ground. And ever since the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready.
~ Mary Roach
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
~ Mary Roach
Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.
~ Mary Shelley
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
~ Mary Stewart
There was one thing, however, that I didn't know: evil is a gift received at birth. There's no acquiring it. Those of us who have not come to this world armed with spurs and fangs are losers in every combat.
~ Maryse Condé
Even the strongest of opponents always has a weakness. -Itachi Uchiha
~ Masashi Kishimoto
As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
~ Matthew Henry
El adversario al que se veía obligada a combatir no le parecía ya digno de la lucha ni de la victoria; no era una superior inteligencia la que desafiaba, sino la ineptitud; una gris extensión algodonosa, blanda y sin forma, que no ofrecía resistencia a nada ni a nadie...
~ Ayn Rand