Quotes About Combat

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

ROSCO: Rosco is on. MARK: Try morphing into something a little less combat-ready. ROSCO: It's a glitch in my program. Travolta virus. You could call the help-line…

your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

The objective, when you have cancer and want to combat fatality, is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the curve.

It must be like a soldier in a trench during a bombing raid. I've shut down every nonessential emotion—worry, fear—concentrating every neuron in my new brain on the moment in order to stay alive.

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Silence is a form of consent, and I just couldn't let the evil popular picture of David and our community stand without trying to combat it.

sitting behind the controls of his Hurricane, taking on a squadron of deadly Messerschmitts, when

We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.

Do we have a plan?" she asked. "Yes," he told her. "Shoot everything that moves.

John says the men threw him down and intended to execute him, at which point he kicked one of the men in the face and backflipped to his feet. He then wrestled away the man's gun and "dick-whipped" him with it. I am unclear as to whether or not this means he struck the man in the groin or merely slapped him in the same manner in which he would slap a person with his dick.

We understand at some level why combat veterans shrink from sharing their stories: we don't want to know them. In our sometimes-frenzied veneration of war heroes, we are too eager to rush past the shadowed doorway where lurks what the poet Peter Marin calls "the terrible and demanding wisdom" of war.

WAIT! You may be wondering why the red suit. Well, that's so bad guys don't see me bleed.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

I had the bad guys fighting, the good guys fighting, the clock ticking.

When your army is inferior in numbers, inferior in cavalry and in artillery, a pitched battle should be avoided. The want of numbers must be supplied by rapidness in marching; the want of artillery by the character of the maneuvers; the inferiority in cavalry by the choice of positions. . .

At this time, we do not believe large-scale ground combat is necessary to battle the latest wave of jihad. In Iraq, we have willing allies, much stronger allies than we had at the time of the 2003 invasion. And Israel has more than enough military strength to repel attacks on its homeland; it needs only American support to resist crushing international pressure to stand down in the face of jihad, pressure that always allows jihadists to ultimately live to fight another day.

Quand l'abÅ¿urde eÅ¿t outré, on lui fait trop d'honneur De vouloir par raiÅ¿on, combattre Å¿on erreur: Enchérir eÅ¿t plus court, Å¿ans s'échauffer la bile.

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.