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Quotes About Discharge

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
~ George Grosz
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!There's no discharge in the war!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~ William Faulkner
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
~ George Washington
On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.
~ Doug Rice
The fading of a memory or the losing of its affect depends on various factors. The most important of these is whether there has been an energetic reaction to the event that provokes the affect. By 'reaction' we here understand the whole class of voluntary and involuntary reflexes - from tears to acts of revenge - in which, as experience shows us, the affects are discharged. If this reaction takes place to a sufficient amount a large part of the affect disappears as a result.
~ Sigmund Freud
But besides having this special feature which is difficult to isolate, we notice that anxiety is accompanied by fairly definite physical sensations which can be referred to particular organs of the body. [...] The clearest and most frequent ones are those connected with the respiratory organs and with the heart. They provide evidence that motor innervations—that is, processes of discharge—play a part in the general phenomenon of anxiety.
~ Sigmund Freud
We assume, in other words, that an anxiety-state is the reproduction of some experience which contained the necessary conditions for such an increase of excitation and a discharge along particular paths, and that from this circumstance the unpleasure of anxiety receives its specific character. In man, birth provides a prototypic experience of this kind, and we are therefore inclined to regard anxiety-states as a reproduction of the trauma of birth.
~ Sigmund Freud
I]t is very possible that what finds discharge in the generating of anxiety is precisely the surplus of unutilized libido. [...] This looks as though the ego were attempting to save itself from anxiety, which it has learned to keep in suspension for a while, and to bind it by the formation of symptoms.
~ Sigmund Freud
Salvatore Culosi Jr., whom they suspected of gambling on sporting events. When the SWAT team confronted Culosi as he came out of his home, one officer's gun discharged, striking Culosi in the chest and killing him.
~ John W. Whitehead
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
~ Barbara Levy Boxer
Why is being in the military like a blow job? The closer you get to discharge, the better you feel.
~ Barry Dougherty
and suddenly, without the slightest volition on my part, there was the most crashing discharge of wind, like the report of a mortar. My horse started; Cardigan jumped in his saddle, glaring at me.....Be Silent! snaps he, and he must have been in a highly nervous condition himself, otherwise he would never have added, in a hoarse whipser: Can you not contain yourself, you disgusting fellow?--Flashman at the start of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ~Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793
~ George Washington
When is there some discharge when. There never is.
~ Gertrude Stein
Matter vomited forth everything she could.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Whenever the energy-charge of unconscious contents becomes excessive, they discharge themselves from the unconscious and are projected.
~ Erich Neumann
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
~ Benjamin Franklin
emit, excrete, expectorate, expel, exude, secrete, spew, spit, vomit This disgusting list is made up of verbs in which the substance is expelled from inside a volume, though they differ in the kind of volume, the nature of the orifice, what the substance is, and how it is expelled.
~ Steven Pinker
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
~ Erma Bombeck
We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
~ Bernard Sanders
I got a bad conduct discharge, was at home for a few months in late '99, and basically said, 'Dad, I want to give wrestling a shot. I sure as hell don't wanna go to college, and the Marine Corps wasn't for me. And I need to make some money, so let's see if I can do it.'
~ Randy Orton
When the buildup of opposite charges is insufficient for lightning to form, a coronal discharge or circular bluish glow—or even a mass of sparks—may appear over a high, sometimes pointed object. This phenomenon, first noted at the top of ships' masts, is called St. Elmo's fire, for the patron saint of sailors.
~ Bob Madgic
When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.
~ Leo Varadkar