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Injuring your opponent is a sign of lack of control and skill and is certainly not a display of the highest level of ethics.
When the only tool you embrace is a hammer you tend to approach every problem as if it where a nail.
Le Chatelier's Principle: If a stress is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system responds to relieve the stress.
Concentrate force to disarm, disable, and dominate. In that order.
Understand others and the mechanisms that make them impressive allies, weak compatriates, or formidable enemies.
Proximity Principle: The law of gravitation states that the closer one is to the source of a force, the stronger its power.
In nature there is a fine line which seperates the hunter from being the hunted.
Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down fifth street! - Sgt. Friday (Dragnet).
Welcome to the food chain pal.
I've come her to chew bubble gum and kick ass... And I'm all out of bubble gum. - Rowdy Roddy Pipper (They Live).
You box? Which man has the advantage, the man with two clubs, or the man with four? - (Kickboxer)
Even the most proficient martial artist needs to remember the basics.
If you're 'hopelessly' out-gunned, try falling back and let the enemy tire themselves down. But don't fall so far back that you lose an advantage.
Don't take sand to the beach nor hamburger to a steak dinner.
To control your opponent is to control yourself. To control yourself is to control your opponent.
Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse. - Chuck Norris (Hitman).
Victory and defeat are determined by attention to simple things. In simple things lies the key to victory. Simple things are usually the most effective way to overcome an opponent.
That which does not kill us can only make us stronger. - (Conan).
So often the energy we spend resisting is what keeps 'The Enemy' going.
Desperately struggling to control a problem can eassily result in the problem controlling you.
Surrender is letting go of being the master in order to avoid becoming the slave.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Strength is but a measure of your greatest weakness.
The beasts had commited suicide to save themselves from slauter.
To loath life is like beating a dead dog.
Time devours all things.
A good liar must know what he is talking about.
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Of evils there is no least, only extremes.
"It doesn't take long for men to make a decision. It's making a decision that's smart that takes the time." - Red Green (Submitted by Bruce Toews)
"Hey world, I'm a tool." - Red Green, after creating the ultimate tool belt.
"Harold, it's amazing the things you say to me when I'm holding an axe." - Red Green
"Quando omni flunkus moritati" - Motto of Possum Lodge
Note: Roughly translated, this means "When all else fails, play dead""RedDwarf" #2_5 >From `Queeg':
Cat: If it's any help, I've been studying his tactics and there's a pattern emerging: Every time you make a move, he makes one too (winks to Holly).
Holly: (winks back) Thanks, Cat."RedDwarf" #3_3 >From `Polymorph':
Rimmer: What about the Rimmer Directive, which states, "Never tangle with anything that's got with more teeth than the entire Osmond family"?"RedDwarf" #4_3 >From `Justice':
Convict: You have no weapons?
Lister: No. You have no weapon?
Convict: No. [they advance] Guess what. [pulls out a knife] I lied.
Lister: Guess what. [pulls out a length of pipe] So did I.
Convict: But I lied ... [pulls out a gun] ... twice.
Lister: I didn't think of that."RedDwarf" #5_1 >From `Holoship':
Cat: What? Am I the only sane one here? Why don't we drop the defensive shields?
Kryten: A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One: We don't have any defensive shields, and Two: We don't have any defensive shields. Now, I realise that, technically speaking, that's only one flaw, but I thought that it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"