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Quotes About Combat

Combat comes before victory. If God has chosen special trials for you to endure, be assured He has kept a very special place in His heart just for you. A badly bruised soul is one who is chosen.
~ L.B. Cowman
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is: 'To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum time.
~ Ladislas Farago
Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
~ Laini Taylor
She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.
~ Laini Taylor
Judging from the array of swords and axes and daggers and bows and other implements of killing and dismemberment that they carried around, she gathered that manual dexterity was an imperative. The better to kill you with, my dears.
~ Laini Taylor
Uno obedecía, así de simple, y si en lo más enconado del combate no obedecía, moría. A veces moría de todos modos.
~ Laird Hunt
I'm not a man . I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
~ Cassandra Clare
Sometimes when you start a war, you want to make pancakes.
~ Cassandra Clare
He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat
~ Cassandra Clare
Demon slayers take the subway?
~ Cassandra Clare
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects. "Only when they've been naughty.
~ Cassandra Clare
In D&D, my first move, when you're dealing with an opposing army like that, would be to lure away a group of them-say five-and take their clothes." "Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" Said Jace. "Because that seems complicated.
~ Cassandra Clare
I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
~ Cassandra Clare
To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.
~ Cassandra Clare
How are you this morning? You get up in time for your workout?" "Yeah. Just finished that. It was just a run... well, a run in full combat uniform including our packs, but it was only five miles so not so bad." Her eyes opened wide. "Oh, sure. That's nothing. I do at least that every morning, you know, before tea.
~ Cat Johnson
Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
~ Cate Tiernan
Don't fight fair; don't worry what you look like," Joshua continued. "Do whatever you have to do to stop our enemy, no holds barred." "Like a sale at Loehmann's," Brynne said.
~ Cate Tiernan
Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty." —Old Scottish saying> <
~ Cate Tiernan
I cannot fight an enemy whose face is hidden.
~ Catherine Anderson
W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.
~ Germaine Greer
Illusions cannot be condemned, despised, and persecuted save by those who are deluded and by those who believe that this world is or truly can be something, and something beautiful. An utterly crucial illusion, and so the half-philosopher combats illusions precisely because he is deluded; the true philosopher loves them and proclaims them because he is not deluded, and combating illusions in general is the surest sign of very imperfect and insufficient wisdom, and notable illusion.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Il nostro compito è di combattere contro lo straniero che ha invaso l'Italia. E contro gli italiani che al soldo dello straniero ci ostacolano in quest'opera di difesa della Patria, noi combattiamo per difenderci".
~ Giampaolo Pansa
His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.
~ Giles Milton