Quotes with combat

  • Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
  • Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

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  • Thomas Jefferson Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart 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
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Adolf Galland I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Margaret Mead I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Plato 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
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • André Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Swami Brahmananda Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Napoleon True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anne Seward Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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