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Quotes About Combat

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Killing is the payoff of war.
~ Morley Safer
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
~ Unknown
Float like a butterfly! Sting like a bee! Rumble, young man! Rumble! Waaa!
~ Muhammad Ali
Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
~ Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
~ Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
~ Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
~ Muhammad Ali
Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
May those who want to pray, the pious people, pray in peace. And let those who wish to fight in the war, enjoy the command of the battlefield.
~ Unknown
If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke of Jesus appearing through locked doors, disappearing again, sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, and finally ascending into heaven
~ Unknown
After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.
~ Unknown
Smiling, she went for his throat and almost had him, when—using a move that was all sorts of illegal—he flipped her again so her front pressed into the leaf-laden ground, her wrists still locked in his iron grip and pinned above her head. "Cheater." "So says the woman who tried to kick my balls into my throat," he pointed out, even as he licked the salt off the skin of her neck in a lazy and highly provocative move.
~ Nalini Singh
This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair?
~ Nalini Singh
Being isolated and alone and hurt day after day changes a person, Aden. It turns a child into . . . into a thing that isn't quite human and not quite animal. Like any trapped creature, that child will gnaw off its own limb to escape—but if that child is a Gradient 9.8 combat-grade telepath named Zaira Neve, it'll first ask if it can gnaw off its attackers' limbs instead.
~ Nalini Singh
Illium, his expression subdued as it had been for too many days, turned to her. "Mind if I have a go?" "Kick his ass." Stripping off his shirt and boots, Illium held out his hand for one of Venom's blades. Lips curving, Venom passed it over. "Sure you can handle me, pretty, pretty Bluebell?" "Did I ever tell you about my snakeskin boots?
~ Nalini Singh
I know when to retreat, when to lull my opponent into a false sense of security… and when to launch a final, victorious strike.
~ Nalini Singh
Though her breathing had gone shallow, she moved like lightning, her legs scissoring to take out those of the stupid, stupid man who'd stood so close to her.
~ Nalini Singh
I won't let you take advantage of women! Here's the Mars Power flame of anger! (ROAR) I'll punish you in high heels!" - Rei/Sailor Mars
~ Naoko Takeuchi
The principles of war are the same as those of a siege. Fire must be concentrated on one point, and as soon as the breach is made, the equilibrium is broken and the rest is nothing.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, luck is half in everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte