Quotes About Combat

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

The war mages might have been running a full-on offensive, but she'd been right there with them. She'd sent them screaming in terror. She'd imprisoned one like a bug under glass. She'd run one the hell down. Mom, I realized in shock, had been kind of a badass.

He's a war mage. They're almost impossible to kill." He scowled. "Even on purpose.

Pritkin might be a hostile son of a bitch, but he was a damn good guy to have in a fight.

I have a theory about war mages," I said. "The more powerful they are, the worse the hair.

I started to duck under the spears, only to have the two vamps on the other wall suddenly appear in my face. Or, at least, their crotches did. Another day, I would have made a cute remark about heat and leather jock straps, but I wasn't feeling real cute right now.

One of the ghosts knows where the passage is!" I told Pritkin. He looked surprised and I scowled. Just because I didn't know seven ways to kill a guy with my elbow didn't make me completely useless.

It's unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

There's no such thing as a dirty fight when you're fighting to win.

Any time. Any place. Think you that means a man should never go to war? War is a natural way of life.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom as long as they weren't the ones being shot at.

War is the province of danger.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

This state of lively tension, the jolly noise that surrounds brides, call to mind that accidentally deafening music and beating of drums by which soldiers are led into mortal combat.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

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Er zijn meer mannen gespaard door goed om zich heen te kijken dan door uitmuntende vechtkunst.

Most importantly, remember that there are no guarantees in a gunfight, particularly when it comes to stopping power.

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

Marx, should you take a weapon?" This is the question of a serious gamer. A gamer should never enter a potential combat situation without checking one's inventory and confirming the availability of a weapon.

A little girl hitting a violent predator with a log is hand-to-hand combat and that's honest. A man, who is represented by a hand, shooting a series of unknown henchmen is dishonest.