For Honor We Stand Quotes

“You learn lots of interesting things when you take the time to find the answers to the questions your mind generates because some part of your mind has decided that those are the questions that you need to have answered.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“Anyone who does not believe cats have shit lists has never lived with a cat.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“The Fermi Paradox?” “Yes. It’s named after Enrico Fermi, the famous physicist who helped build the first fission reactor, the first fission weapon, and many other seminal contributions to physics that are far beyond my limited understanding of the field. It is said that after discussing alien visitation during a walk with a few colleagues, he sat down to lunch with them and suddenly asked, ‘Where are they?’ One of the other diners responded, ‘Who, Doctor Fermi? Where are who?’ He replied, ‘The extraterrestrials. Where are they? They should be here by now.’ He then proceeded to do some calculations showing that, given the age of the galaxy and the number of stars in it, the Earth should have been visited many times over. And as I understand the time line of such things, it was a good point.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“post-traumatic stress disorder, which, at its root, is an anxiety disorder. Although I am generally handling it well, part of my mind fears recurrence of these experiences and seeks to protect me from them by being constantly on guard with the fight-or-flight response set to a hair trigger. You call this ‘hypervigilance,’ which you described to me as the mind’s effort to keep me alive in a dangerous environment by monitoring every aspect of that environment very carefully. But it’s a strain on the mind and the body,”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“modern cognitive theory that says people tend to perceive reality in light of preexisting expectations and will ignore large amounts of contrary data before finally changing their minds.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“One: Never, ever hurry. If you do something fast once, people will expect you to do it that fast every other time. Two: Never be the first person to do anything. To err is human, but to err in a way no one has erred before makes people question your judgment. Three: There is no mistake that cannot be papered over by enough of the right kind of documentation. Once the dust settles, it’s not what you do, but what you say about what you did, that matters.” The”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“Know the enemy and know yourself, and in a thousand battles you will never be in peril.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand

“Clouseau stretched invitingly, which resulted in a brief scratch behind the ears and under the chin from Finnegan. Goldman was too wrapped up in his console to notice. Clouseau looked at him with obvious irritation. Goldman was now on the cat’s shit list. Anyone who does not believe cats have shit lists has never lived with a cat.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, For Honor We Stand