Winston Churchill Quotes

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

I like the edge of danger.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Danger is cool.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

I live to feel myself in danger.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

I am always in front, and in time of battle am never behind.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

Women have long found themselves grieving for the dead and caring for the wounded during and after war, but … as more and more women become war fighters themselves, they too face danger and see horrors, often with the added burden if sexual harassment and worse at the hands of their fellow warriors—burdens aggravated by official indifference.