Combat Quotes - Page 20

• It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mopping Up, Imagination, Victory

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Worry, Boots

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Machines, Chickens

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Aviation

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• You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

  Joseph Heller

  Jobs, Men, Overcoming

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Enemy, Lines, Retreat

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• To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

  Henry Rollins

  Japan, Confusion, Way

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• The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Boredom, Age, Quality

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• Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Body, Shapes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

  Thomas Campbell

  Bravery, Munich, Chivalry

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.161

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• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Moving, Fall

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Hero, Air

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• I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.

  Greg Giraldo

  Tired, Kids, Gay

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• Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Iraq, Australia

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Fall, Humanity, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hero, Thinking, Compassion

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• ... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

  Carl Mydans

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• Takes more than combat gear to make a man
  Takes more than a license for a gun
  Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
  A gentleman will walk but never run

  Sting

  Running, Gun, Men

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Fighting, Principles, Groups

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• Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

  Adolph Malan

  Fire, Sight, Aviation

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• Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring sight.

  Adolph Malan

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

  George McGovern

  Views, Enemy, Neighbor

  George Stanley McGovern (1968). “A time of war, a time of peace”

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• Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

  Adolph Malan

  Aviation, Fingers

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• Height gives you the initiative.

  Adolph Malan

  Giving, Height, Aviation

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