quotes about Combat
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
-- Albert Camus -
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
-- Andre Maurois -
I counted them all out and I counted them all back.
-- Brian HanrahanSource : On the number of British aeroplanes (which he was not permitted to disclose) joining the raid on Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands: BBC broadcast report, 1 May 1982, in 'Battle for the Falklands' (1982) p. 21
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In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
-- Bruce Lee -
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I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
-- Caspar Weinberger -
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
-- Erich Hartmann -
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No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.
-- Frederick C. Blesse -
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
-- Gijs de Vries -
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
-- Glenn Turner -
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To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
-- Herta Muller -
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
-- Jim Lehrer -
I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.
-- Joe Teti -
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There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
-- Joseph Heller -
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
-- Larry WilcoxSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
-- Manfred von RichthofenSource : Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword
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Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.
-- Manfred von Richthofen -
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Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
-- Manfred von Richthofen -
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
-- Mary-Louise Parker -
We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.
-- Maureen Johnson -
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
-- Mel Brooks -
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There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
-- Michelle Bachelet -
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
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One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
-- Paul Keating -
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
-- Paul Yingling -
The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.
-- Peter SaloveySource : "Yale President Peter Salovey: ‘The Most Effective Way To Combat Speech You Don’t Like Is With Speech’" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-- Plato -
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Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.
-- Pope Francis -
The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.
-- Richard Marcinko -
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But only a fool sails into combat with nature
-- Robert Harris -
Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.
-- Thomas McGuire -
Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.
-- Tim McIlrath -
The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.
-- Todd DuncanSource : Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
-- Tracy Kidder -
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
-- Valerie Steele -
Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism
-- Walid Muallem -
So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
-- William H. Whyte -
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
-- William James -
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
-- William O. DouglasSource : Interview with Mike Wallace, November 4, 1958.
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[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.
-- Catherine CamusSource : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
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It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice
-- Sergey Lavrov -
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.
-- Adolph Malan -
Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!
-- Adolph Malan -
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Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.
-- Ray HenaultSource : "Probe Begins Into U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadians". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2002.