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Quotes About Combat

wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins." I really liked that quote. It explained why, even though I was reasonably intelligent, I kept finding myself doing something really stupid.
~ Ilona Andrews
A wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.
~ Ilona Andrews
The war's not over yet,' Jordache said. 'There's still a lot of idiots waiting that have to be killed.
~ Irwin Shaw
la caída del imperio, caballeros, es algo monumental y no puede combatirse fácilmente. Está dictada por una burocracia en aumento, una recesión de la iniciativa, una congelación de las castas, un estancamiento de la curiosidad… y muchos factores más.
~ Isaac Asimov
Escapar ileso en un combate es cuestión de suerte, hasta el más experto puede perecer por una bala perdida.
~ Isabel Allende
No comprendió el estado de guerra interna ni se dio cuenta de que la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminación de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesión. No están hechos para brillar en la paz.
~ Isabel Allende
My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn't go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.
~ Ishmael Beah
Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game was so well done, I didn't care what genre it was. Any genre can be done poorly or done well.
~ Tim Schafer
I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play 'Dragon Age' for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn't enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode - it's not a pure story mode in that there's zero combat, but it's not super-challenging.
~ Marc Laidlaw
I've pictured myself fighting a whole bunch of people. Not only the Max Holloway, but also Conor, Cejudo, Korean Zombie, even Khabib Nurmagomedov.
~ Alexander Volkanovski
If there was a zombie apocalypse, I would use my yodeling to kill every single one of them.
~ Mason Ramsey
Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.
~ Dustin Poirier
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
~ Martin Scorsese
I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.
~ Lily James
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
~ Scott Anderson
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
~ Damian Lewis
Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he's in the zone. That's how it feels for me sometimes when I'm fighting.
~ Israel Adesanya
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
~ Mark Helprin
Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
~ Martin Freeman
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
~ John Eisenhower
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
~ Phil Klay
I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.
~ Joni Ernst
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.
~ Patty Smyth