Combat Quotes - Page 15

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

Danai Gurira

Fighting, Play, Nyu

"'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Charles Frazier

Past, Thinking, Stronger

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This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

Mark Shields

Gay, College, White

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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sleep, Night, Drug

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

Nathan Farragut Twining

War, Fall, Two

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Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

Mick Mannock

Flying, Enemy, Aviation

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Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home.

Robert S. Johnson

Home, Fighting, Successful

Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Government, Differences, Challenges

Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

Naomi Wolf

Struggle, Age, Done

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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

Ezra Taft Benson

Jesus, Book, Teaching

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He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Inspiration, Space

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Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Strength, Inspiration

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Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Dream, War

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I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.

Joe Teti

Survival, Done

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He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

Tamora Pierce

Believe, Forever, Trials

Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers

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It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

Omar N. Bradley

Fear, War, Struggle

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As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

Richard Armitage

Daughter, Mother, Son

9/11 Commission Hearings, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Socrates

Life, Courage, Men

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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.

James Salter

Oxygen, Vacuums, Steel

James Salter (2012). “The Hunters”, p.193, Counterpoint Press

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The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Fighting, Weapons, Spirit

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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Tara Brach

Buddhist, Pain, Believe

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We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.

Cesar Chavez

Sacrifice, Ideas, Justice

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The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

War, Giving, Training

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.

Iain Pears

Philosophy, Teaching, Men

Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.237, Penguin

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But only a fool sails into combat with nature

Robert Harris

Fool, Sail

Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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