#fighter

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#comfort #consideration #dignity #few #fighters

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support. ↗

— Ian Smith

#freedom #only #poor #so-called #support

What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword. ... "I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?" "Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time? ↗

— Lynn Kurland

#female-fighter #wooing #men

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#am #fighter #get #go #i

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#branch #come #fall #fighter #freedom

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#command #elite #fighter #high #luftwaffe

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#burning #closed #cockpit #could #enemy

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#aircraft #allowed #built #few #fifty

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#did #fighter #fired #general #give

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#fighter #i #prove #wanted #world