Zieschang Origin Quotes & Sayings

The bulletproof vest
'bullet resistant,' technically
is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death ... ' Other cops wrote their blood type. — Edward Conlon

In my experience, the handoff was the most dangerous part of a deal. If your client decided to pay you in bullets instead of cash, this was where it would go down. — Craig Schaefer

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister. — Scott Westerfeld

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it. — Horace Bushnell

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world. — John Rogers

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus' words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian cannot judge sin. Otherwise this non-believer is unconsciously entertaining a belief that Jesus, unlike any other man to ever live, was indeed perfect and sinless in His judgments and therefore that Christian is supposed to be like Him. — Criss Jami

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me? — Coolio

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such ... — Sigmund Freud

Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house. — Nadeem Aslam

I want every inch of you trembling, fucking shaking, begging for me to take you, Ry, because fuck if I won't be doing the same. I want to be your sigh, your moan, your cry out in pleasure and every fucking sound in between. — K. Bromberg

My world, which once seemed so broad and full of possibilities, began to shrink as my need for security grew. Why could that be? It must be a quality we inherited from when our ancestors lived in caves. Groups provide protection; loners die. — Paulo Coelho

A poem is a construction of inner space.
Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable. — John Maynard Keynes