Great Combat Quotes

#1. I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#2. I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

Michael Ignatieff

#3. Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life ... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Sigmund Freud

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

Andre Maurois

#5. He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

Julian Of Norwich

#6. Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

Donald Hall

#8. They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.

Kathy Hepinstall

#9. One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

Tom Hanks

#10. I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

Pia Zadora

#11. The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

Barack Obama

#12. All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

George S. Patton Jr.

#13. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

#14. It was not a terribly good stab. Millers' daughters do not traditionally spend a great deal of time engaged in single combat.

T. Kingfisher

#15. Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type.

Bisco Hatori

#16. There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.

Rick Atkinson

#17. It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture ... Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

Kellan Lutz

#19. The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

Jimmy Buffett

#20. Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

Brian Stann

#21. Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave.

Homer

#22. In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.

Carlos Wallace

#23. 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

#24. The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

Larry Wilcox

#25. Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

T. S. Eliot

#26. 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