Quotes about combat
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Edgar Guest photo
Edgar Guest photo
Gong Yoo photo
Divya S. Iyer photo
Eminem photo

“Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness. No matter how easy it is to turn it off, it keeps trying to fight its way back in”

This TV show has changed my life and the perspective I have on my life as a vampire.

Prevale photo

“Instict to dare and courage to fight: essential elements in a woman to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Istinto per osare e coraggio per lottare: elementi essenziali in una donna da amare.
Source: prevale.net

Ricardo Galvão photo
Joe Biden photo

“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, March 2022
Source: Why Biden and the White House keep talking about World War III (March 17, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/why-biden-white-house-keep-talking-about-world-war-iii/

Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo

“Then there is the man with a conscience, who fights single-handedly against heavy odds in situations that call for a decision.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), Who Stands Fast?

Nancy Pelosi photo

“We are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom — that we’re on a frontier of freedom, and that your fight is a fight for everyone. And so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.”

Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940

Remarks to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted in "Pelosi makes unannounced trip to Kyiv, becoming highest-ranking US official to meet with Zelensky since the war began" by Michelle Watson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/politics/pelosi-zelensky-kyiv-ukraine-intl/index.html] (1 May 2022)]; also in "Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine, says commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done'", Global News (1 May 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga34dmkMwBU

Joe Biden photo

“The people of Ukraine continue to inspire the world with their courage and resolve as they fight bravely to defend their country and their democracy against Russian aggression.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Statement by President Joe Biden on Additional Security Assistance to Ukraine (June 1, 2022) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/01/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-additional-security-assistance-to-ukraine-2/
2022, June 2022

Lloyd Austin photo

“If confirmed, I will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault, to rid our ranks of racists and extremists”

Lloyd Austin (1953) American military officer and 28th US Secretary of Defense

19 January 2021 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-pentagon-idUSKBN29O2II

Sandy Koufax photo

“I'll never know. I've never been in a fight. But I doubt whether pitching speed would have any significance. You can't go into a windup in the ring.”

Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player

As quoted in "Stuart's Problem; Suppose Sandy Had Become a Boxer" by Sid Ziff, in The Los Angeles Times (July 7, 1966)

“I haven't been focused as much as I should have been on supporting trans rights in the last 12 months. I now realize that this is where the fight for global democracy is. There is no avoiding it.”

Jason Stanley (1969) American philosopher

Twitter https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1534592219533000705, 3:44 AM · Jun 9, 2022

Trường Chinh photo
Michael Francis Burbidge photo

“The stance against abortion is the pre-eminent priority. How could it not be? We have to get it right from the beginning. Our stance on life, that is our pre-eminent priority. We have to fight against this evil.”

Michael Francis Burbidge (1957) American Catholic bishop

The Walk Humbly Podcast - Episode 39: Protecting children online, priority of abortion, homelessness pilot project, and more! https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/bishop/walk-humbly-podcast/the-walk-humbly-podcast---episode-39/ (18 November 2019)

David Attenborough photo

“Those that live in the air have to fight in the air.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"Meat-Eaters"
The Life of Birds (1998)

Vitali Klitschko photo

“Russian soldiers are fighting for the money, Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian citizens are fighting for the future of our children - and you feel the difference between the money and the children.”

Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician

"Ukraine war: Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says it is 'a big privilege for every man' to defend Ukraine and warns Russian soldiers to 'go away'" https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-kyiv-mayor-vitali-klitschko-says-it-is-a-big-privilege-for-every-man-to-defend-ukraine-and-warns-russian-soldiers-to-go-away-12578968, Sky News, 31 March 2022

Joe Biden photo

“Every day, Ukrainians pay with their lives, and they fight along — and the atrocities that the Russians are engaging in are just beyond the pale. And the cost of the fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is even more costly. That’s why we’re staying in this.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Remarks By President Biden at Signing of S. 3522, the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act Of 2022” (May 9, 2022) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/09/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-s-3522-the-ukraine-democracy-defense-lend-lease-act-of-2022/
2022, May 2022

Kamala Harris photo

“Because, you see, in our form of justice, we have rightly said that individual should not be made to fight alone. A harm against her, against him, against them is a harm against all of us as a society.”

Kamala Harris (1964) United States Senator from California

2022, June 2022, Remarks by Vice President Harris Announcing the Launch of the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse

Elizabeth Martinez photo
Michelle Wu photo

“Here in Boston, in Massachusetts, we will do what we do best: We will fight back, fiercely—for our freedoms and for each other. This moment does not belong to the far right. It belongs to us, like our bodies. And we decide what to do with it.”

Michelle Wu (1985) City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts

24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY

Michelle Wu photo

“If there's anything more exhausting than having to battle for our basic human rights, it's letting them go without a fight.”

Michelle Wu (1985) City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts

24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY

Kim Stanley Robinson photo
Zhang Yufei photo

“I just want to say if I cannot win the gold eventually, I will not let my rivals win easily. We need to fight for it. I can accept not standing on the highest podium, but I will never give up.”

Zhang Yufei (1998) Chinese swimmer

"Zhang swims and smiles her way into nation's hearts" in China Daily https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202107/27/WS60ff5a12a310efa1bd664845.html (27 July 2021)

Leonid Kuchma photo

“Mobilizing the efforts of the various strata and sectors of our societies could become a powerful driving force for progress in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.”

Leonid Kuchma (1938) Second president of Ukraine

Speech at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (2003)

Dave Leduc photo

“In life you don’t ‘half-ass’ things. So I thought; I want to fight, why not do the most brutal sport in the world?”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

Leduc talking about Lethwei in A royal portrait: Dave Leduc https://thebodylockmma.com/lethwei/a-royal-portrait-dave-leduc-king-of-lethwei/ (July 30, 2019)
On Lethwei

Dave Leduc photo

“I would prefer fighting foreign fighters to show the true power of Lethwei against other martial arts.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

As quoted by Anadolu Agency https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/ethnic-muslim-fighter-eyes-myanmar-s-kickboxing-crown/1325639 (November 30, 2018)
On Lethwei

Dave Leduc photo

“We’ll let the peasants fight for last place.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

After arriving in first place in the third episode of The Amazing Race Canada, Season 7 https://www.tv-eh.com/2019/07/16/the-amazing-race-canada-one-way-fun-day-in-edmonton/ (July 16, 2019)

Frances Harper photo

“I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.”

Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer

"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

Thomas Carlyle photo

“America's battle is yet to fight; and we, sorrowful though nothing doubting, will wish her strength for it.”

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)

Margaret Cho photo

“You will never make love, laugh, fight, eat, go to the movies, kiss, smile, dance, sing, run, skate, play the piano, buy candy for, argue jokingly, tell stories, look longingly at, jump on the bed with, pet the dogs with your faces, sing along with the song in the car and get the words wrong, share a secret, gossip, cop a feel, go hear a band that you both love, share a really good meal, carpool with people you don't like and make fun of them secretly later, cry, comfort, scratch backs, insist on pizza, catch them staring at you, put your arms around them, stay up too late, lean against warm bodies, feel safe with their feet sliding next to yours in bed, raise your children, go to boring dinner parties and get too drunk to drive home so you sleep in the car, spend alternate holidays with each others families, have uncontrollable lust with, followed by mind blowing fuck sessions lasting for hours and hours at a time, take a bath so hot one of you has to get out, all naked and wet and red and dizzy but not embarrassed because this is who you love and rarely are you shy with them, watch a TV show you both hate because the remote control is broken--merely happily, and maybe sometimes unhappily, share your life, and be with them, but you can't, because they're dead. Suddenly, unjustly, untimely, irretrievably--unconscionably dead.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, DEATH

Eric Hoffer photo

“To the intellectual the struggle for freedom is more vital than the actuality of a free society. He would rather "work, fight, talk, for liberty than have it."”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 12: "Concerning Individual Freedom". [In this passage "work, fight, talk, for liberty than have it" is a quotation of Lincoln Steffens from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931), p. 635]

Prevale photo

“Every woman, from becoming and feeling like a real mother, fights every day like a warrior in the name of love for her child with strength, courage and making great sacrifices; so that she always manages to give him serenity, happiness, security and will to live.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni donna, dal diventare e sentirsi una vera madre, lotta ogni giorno come una guerriera nel nome dell'amore per il proprio figlio con forza, coraggio e facendo grandi sacrifici; affinché riesca sempre a donargli serenità, felicità, sicurezza e voglia di vivere.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Before facing any problem, fight your inner demons: specifically the thoughts that disturb your serenity.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Prima di affrontare qualsiasi problema, combatti i tuoi demoni interiori: in particolare i pensieri che disturbano la tua serenità.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Share your life with a special person, who knows how to love, choose and fight, with true and sincere values. A person who at the mere thought of him, makes your heart beat… simply: your love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Condividete la vostra vita con una persona speciale, che sappia amare, scegliere e lottare, con dei valori veri e sinceri. Una persona che al solo suo pensiero, vi faccia battere il cuore... semplicemente: il vostro amore.
Source: prevale.net