Nusbacher Military Quotes & Sayings

The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis. — Philip K. Dick

The boys were going to a place that none had ever been before, to serve an order that had been the enemy of their kith and kin for thousands of years, yet Jon saw no tears, heard no wailing mothers. These are winter's people, [ ... ] tears freeze upon your cheeks where they come from. — George R R Martin

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits. — Ginny Brown-Waite

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. — Chris Toumazou

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch was not that interesting on the page. What really sold me on the show and the character was their vision for him. It took the whole first season to flesh him out. — Bailey Chase

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy. — Edward Lampert

The meetings consisted mostly of the members who showed up every other week arguing with the ones who came every other month about what exactly "bimonthly" means. I — Paul Beatty

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz

Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not. — George S. Clason

Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary. Unite my will to the will of the Immaculata, which is one with your will. — Michael Gaitley

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing. — Tobias Wolff

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training. — Bruce Molsky

He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to. — Becky Albertalli