Jeff Kirkham > Quotes

“We’re too weak as a nation. If we were hardened, like Afghanis or Kurds―or even our grandparents who made it through the Great Depression―a failure of the stock market wouldn’t be such a game changer. We would go back to growing food in our yards and raising goats in city parks. But we’re the weakest society the world has ever seen. If the system fails, people will go ape shit. Any cop will tell you: there is a fine line between civility and savagery. When Costco closes in the middle of the day, that’ll be our cue that the credit card machines aren’t running and we’re screwed.” “I hope you’re wrong.” Jason shook his head.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“When you get to be my age, you realize that not one damn thing lasts forever. When you have something beautiful then you lose it, only a fool would waste time regretting it. Having it at all was manna from heaven—no matter how long you had it.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“Men who talked too much were hungry for connection. They needed more connection than the world freely offered, so they “pushed the rope” and yapped to fill the empty chasms in their own, yearning hearts.”
― Jeff Kirkham, America Invaded

“profile: fifteen Toyota Tacomas, painted desert tan, each one of them with a Russian-made belt-fed machine gun bolted to the truck bed.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“Make the wounds such that they can heal. I know the wounds will be deep, but make them not so deep as to forever scar.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“Yes. I suppose it did. So did Benjamin Franklin. And Rand Paul. And Ayn Rand.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“I’m so close to Mexico and so far from all that yap, yap, yapping about transgender bathrooms and free college.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“As he had done many times before in business and in life, Jason reached down inside, envisioned a knob on his heart and turned the knob way down.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“The snowflakes are going bucknutty.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“Every guy carried an AR-15 assault rifle with a flashlight, laser, vertical grip, and an ACOG scope.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“In the SEAL teams, the mantra went something like this: “Any time you find yourself in a gunfight that you didn’t plan, you are being ambushed. Never fight the other guy’s ambush unless you have no other choice.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“Noah was ninety-percent sure he’d just pulled battle tactics from a Johnny Horton song.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“Any time you find yourself in a gunfight that you didn’t plan, you are being ambushed. Never fight the other guy’s ambush unless you have no other choice.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

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― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn

“Mother Nature came at a man straight on, knocking him to the ropes by sheer force. Human ego, on the other hand, crawled out from under the canvas, slid up a man’s leg and laid maggots in his brain. When it all fell apart and people died, it wasn’t because of snow, water, drought, or heat. It was emotion. Mother Nature only finished the job human ego started.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.” ​— ​ANTON CHEKHOV, THE THREE”
― Jeff Kirkham, President Partisan

“If you were the kind of guy who waited to be told what to do, you would never survive the military selection process. If you were the kind of guy who looked for work and got it done, you might just survive to become a top-tier operator.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“the same square after all.” Bill shook his head. “When you get to be my age, you realize that not one damn thing lasts forever. When you have something beautiful then you lose it, only a fool would waste time regretting it. Having it at all was manna from heaven—no matter how long you had it.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“If you were the kind of guy who waited to be told what to do, you would never survive the military selection process. If you were the kind of guy who looked for work and got it done, you might just survive to become a top-tier operator. Young William was the second type of guy, and Mat could definitely work with those raw materials.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“History will conclude the American Empire fell because of two poor villagers and an idiot.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“have their close washed,”
― Jeff Kirkham, America Invaded

“Good judgment comes from experience and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Conquistadors

“Since leaving southern California, he had gained a master’s degree in the fragility of order and the strength of chaos. What can”
― Jeff Kirkham, Travelers

“This is how smart people step on their own dicks,” Noah said. “It’s mostly a white person thing, I guess. When we get everything we ever wanted, we go looking for something else to piss us off.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Blood Spring

“rock.”
― Jeff Kirkham, Black Autumn