Robert Fisk Quotes

Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Life has to be dangerous.

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

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.

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

To save all we must risk all.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Necessity, which even makes cowards brave ...

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