Combat famous quotes

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

#Army #Artist #Combat

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
-- Andre Maurois

#Men #Waste #Combat

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.
-- Brian Hanrahan

#Combat

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
-- Bruce Lee

#Technique #Spontaneity #Combat

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
-- Caspar Weinberger

#Thinking #Combat #Valuable

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Evil #Combat #Refuse

See, decide, attack, reverse.
-- Erich Hartmann

#Combat #Reverse

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
-- Erich Hartmann

#Home #Another Day #Combat

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.
-- Francesco Baracca

#Men #He Man #Combat

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

#Glory #Combat #Guts

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
-- Gijs de Vries

#Information #Share #Combat

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

#Viruses #Made #Combat

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
-- Herta Muller

#Needs #Combat

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

#Kind #Social #Combat

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

#Military #Life Is Like #Combat

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

#Survival #Done #Combat

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

#Crazy #Want #Combat

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
-- Larry Wilcox

#Lessons #Film #Combat

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 Richthofen

#Air #Lost #Combat

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.
-- Manfred von Richthofen

#Perseverance #Restless #Combat

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
-- Manfred von Richthofen

#Taken #Combat

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Fists #Way #Combat

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.
-- Maureen Johnson

#Faces #Combat

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

#Bridges #Infantry #Combat

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

#Military #Enough #Combat

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.
-- Mick Mannock

#Flying #Enemy #Combat

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

#Trying #Arrogant #Combat

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Fall #Men #Combat

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
-- Paul Keating

#Tire #Combat #Stills

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
-- Paul Yingling

#Conformity #Combat #Behave

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.
-- Peter Salovey

#Way #Speech #Combat

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

#Plato #Conflict #Combat

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.
-- Pope Francis

#Evil #Overcoming #Combat

Catholics are born for combat.
-- Pope Leo XIII

#Catholic #Combat #Born

How this can happen is a mystery to us.
-- Ray Henault

#Mystery #Combat

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.
-- Richard Marcinko

#Training #Combat

But only a fool sails into combat with nature
-- Robert Harris

#Fool #Combat #Sail

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.
-- Thomas McGuire

#Thinking #Combat

Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.
-- Tim McIlrath

#Fighting #Life Is #Combat

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.
-- Todd Duncan

#Opportunity #Way #Combat

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
-- Tracy Kidder

#Vietnam #Combat #Novel

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
-- Valerie Steele

#Power #Gears #Combat

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

#Effort #Terrorism #Combat

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
-- William H. Whyte

#Taken #Problem #Combat

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
-- William James

#Stress #Weapons #Combat

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
-- William O. Douglas

#Ideas #Way #Combat

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
-- William P. Driscoll

#Sloppiness #Speed #Combat

[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 Camus

#Men #Neutrality #Combat

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice
-- Sergey Lavrov

#Injustice #Realizing #Combat

Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.
-- Adolph Malan

#Levels #Aviation #Combat

Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!
-- Adolph Malan

#Aviation #Combat #Hard

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!
-- Adolph Malan

#Aviation #Combat #Fingers

Always turn and face the attack.
-- Adolph Malan

#Faces #Aviation #Combat

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Aviation #Combat

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 Henault

#Aviation #Mystery #Combat