Combat Quotes - Page 12

• I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

  Lights

  Games, Fans, Firsts

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I would have said get out of Syria; get out - if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat.

  Donald Trump

  Hands, Years, Care

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I'm like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can't walk in heels.

  Kesha

  Running, Stars, Dirty

  "Ke$ha In V Magazine: Singer Says She’s The ‘Dirty Little Sister’ Of The Pop World", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stars, Perfect, Soldier

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• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary. When we gloss over these truths we unintentionally promote the very stigma we’re trying to combat.

  Katha Pollitt

  Sex, Moving, Motherhood

  "How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  People, Defeat, Communism

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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• I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.
  Reach forth and write upon the sky
  The awful autograph of God.

  Joaquin Miller

  Writing, Sky, Lightning

  "Shadows of Shasta". Book by Joaquin Miller. Epigraph, 1881.

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• The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Inspire, Battle

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Effort

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• Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, People, Enemy

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

  Dale E. Turner

  Peace, Real, War

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• And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

  Pierre Corneille

  Want, Contention

  Pierre Corneille (2009). “Le Cid”, p.79, The Floating Press

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• This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

  Cynthia Heimel

  New York, Tunnels, Bridges

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Danger, Cures

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• It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

  Richard Myers

  Troops, Helpful, Kind

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• The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Comforting, Suffering, Exaltation

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Sports, Military, Fighting

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

  Paul Keating

  Tire, Stills, Knows

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• Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

  Rorion Gracie

  Victory, Jiu Jitsu, Serious

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• Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

  Walid Muallem

  Effort, Terrorism, Syria

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• The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Ordinary

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• Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

  Martin of Tours

  Roman Soldiers, Saint, Christ

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• Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Confidence, Ambition, Self

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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