But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.
CHRIS KYLEI’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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It’s funny – sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can’t really be there for the people they love. I’ve felt it myself.
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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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What wounded veteran’s don’t need is sympathy. They need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don’t go around thumping people.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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I don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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