Combat Quotes - Page 21

• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Sex, Children, Men

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• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Blood, Games

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• If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Trying, Opponents, Aviation

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• The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

  Gunther Rall

  Fighting, Aviation, Accepting

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• The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

  Sophocles

  Crush, Greek, Gears

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• On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Home, Fighting

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Marine, College

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• Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Bears, Reason, Disgrace

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• The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vehemence, Resolution, Vacillation

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.231

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• In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

  Erich Hartmann

  Flying, Use, Fancy

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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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• 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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• 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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• If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people.  Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Race, People

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• Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Hands, Satan, Hell

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• Maybe it's not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it's the very presence of one thing - light or darkness - that necessitates the existence of the other.
  Think about it, people couldn't become legendary heroes if they hadn't first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if there
  weren't diseases for them to treat.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Hero, Cutting, Thinking

  Jessica Shirvington (2011). “Embrace”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, Men, Understanding

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Fire, Air

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.54

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• It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Feelings, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.432

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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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