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If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance — Daven Anderson

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

In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, 'I'd better get on my toes again.' — Michelle Yeoh

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

Takes more than combat boots to make a man. — Sting

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson

When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag. — Orlando Bloom

Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. — Camille Paglia

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor. — Joel McHale

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance. — Miyamoto Musashi

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel De Montaigne

Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals. — Tom Glenn

Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' ... 'you need to protect this victory.' — Pope Francis

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington

It's typical for some who've been through combat to romanticize it, — J.D. Robb

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

I warn you, sir, I am more than skilled in deadly combat," I said, hoping that was something someone more than skilled in deadly combat might say. — Tarun Shanker

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

Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don't want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don't. — Lauren Conrad

The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat. — The Ultimate Warrior

Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat. — Chuck Wendig

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions. — Phyllis Schlafly

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose. — CLAMP

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard. — Adolph Malan

If you're not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won't combat the caloric intake. — Jennifer Hudson

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

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

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick. — James Turner

to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat — Jeff Cooper

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men. — John Dryden

Get fat if you can, boys. Tomorrow's bringin' her sister. — Gary Prisk

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

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. — Charles Lamb

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

You ordered an immediate withdrawal, sir. Am I to understand I have the liberty to countermand your orders in combat? — Owen R. O'Neill

He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably. — Shannon Stacey

I need to stay continually watchful, prepared with the whole armor of God if I want to combat the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil. — Lynn Austin

Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking. — E. M. Forster

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running. — Bear Grylls

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one. — John Scalzi

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple — Leonard Cohen

An average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended. — Lee Child

Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years. — Peter Singer

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A.J. Muste

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

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities. — Nelson Mandela

The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded. — Bob Mayer

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel De Cervantes

Believe it when you see it.
Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room. — Brian Turner

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup

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

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. — Yannick Noah

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

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty. — Tony Danza

Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day. — Glen Cook

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. — Martin Of Tours

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

Single combat? We're leaving. — Mark Lawrence

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. — Lucy Liu

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

Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion. — Lois McMaster Bujold

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. — Barack Obama

It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war. — Bruce H. Norton

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

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. — Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition. — Paulo Coelho

The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said. — Orson Scott Card

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. — Michael Hastings

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. — Valerie Jarrett

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight. — Earl Sweatshirt

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life — Miyamoto Musashi

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

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

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat. — Adolf Galland

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. — Anna Seward

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse. — Richard Phillips

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' — Stephen Lang

A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good. — Dean Koontz

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not. — Barack Obama

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. — Richard Marcinko

His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office. — Kafka, Franz

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. — Mac Barnett

I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't. — Gabriel Macht

Suicide is now the leading cause of death for US service members and veterans, far outstripping combat-related deaths. — Cara Hoffman

Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation. — Mary Roach

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks. — Stephen Crane

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper

Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. — Niki Tsongas

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

The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat. — Oakley Hall

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat. — Kofi Annan

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

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

The point of books was to combat loneliness — David Lipsky

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat. — Dave Mustaine

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness. — Josh Radnor