Top 100 Brad Meltzer Quotes
#1. So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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#2. Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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#3. I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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#4. Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves.
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#5. If I've learned one thing over the years, it's that every person you encounter brings out a different part of you.
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#7. Be daring, be daring, always be daring. There is no big dream unless you dream big.
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#8. I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a country song.
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#10. Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?
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#11. I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.
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#12. The turkeys get you down. He then slipped the note into
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#13. The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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#14. A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.
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#15. Some dreams linger for years.
And some last forever.
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#16. History is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.
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#17. The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?
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#19. Don't go to eighth grade ... don't talk about something old ... don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
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#20. Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?
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#21. Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
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#22. You tell them - you tell them there's a cost ... Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.
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#23. My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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#24. We're all being tested...That's what life is.
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#25. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
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#26. Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
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#27. I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
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#28. You may never make peace with your father. But you can always make peace with yourself.
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#29. Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
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#30. I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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#31. Pam described herself as the person in fifth grade who got left behind when her friends got popular.
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#34. But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
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#35. It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.
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#36. There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.
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#37. Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I've been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I'm not just seeing what I want. I'm seeing what my friend needs.
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#38. I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.
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#39. The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.
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#40. We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20
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#41. Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
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#42. As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
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#43. If you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best ... "
"and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.
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#44. Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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#45. Life takes time. Death, however, reveals itself in an instant.
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#46. Can I tell you something ... ? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.
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#47. None of us are who we are on our very worst days," he adds. "I know you know that.
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#48. You need to understand something Cal-in this world, we're not humans having a divine experience. We're divine beings having a human experience.
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#49. Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.
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#50. As your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
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#51. For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.
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#52. My sleep that night was restless and unquiet, haunted by the ungodly howls of the horrible creature. Its yellow eyes lingered in my mind's eye as I awoke the next morning,
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#53. They can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you.
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#54. No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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#55. Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.
Some scars never heal.
Then again, some do.
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#56. In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.
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#57. It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.
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#58. In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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#59. It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most
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#60. It's far easier to judge others than to judge yourself.
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#61. Some people need coffee; I need the outdoors.
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#62. Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
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#63. History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with ...
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#64. Would all go tell their friends and neighbors and cousins and strangers in the supermarket that we went up for our baptism and sneezed in the holy water.
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#66. Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,
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#67. We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.
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#68. I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
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#69. History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
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#71. Never forget, the greatest battle we'll ever face is the battle within ourselves.
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#72. There is a fine line between a carefree spirit and a fear of failure
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#73. Haven't you ever played Uno? ... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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#74. We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
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#75. We may have heaven and hell in us, but we choose who we are. And who we fight.
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#76. Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history ... There's nothing more powerful than history ...
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#77. No civilian has been allowed to see the gold in Fort Knox since 1974, nearly 40 years ago.
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#78. No one answered. Wasting no time, Clementine speed-limped, doing
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#79. There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
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#80. Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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#81. Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
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#82. From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
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#83. The juice. All I'm asking is that you keep it away from this gossip woman, because if that story runs tomorrow and Ellen sees it - There's a click on my phone.
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#84. Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.
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#85. People are more twisted than people think.
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#86. She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
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#87. Onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the
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#88. Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible.
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#89. And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most ... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
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#90. There are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.
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#92. Do you not see that? That's what being family is - that's the best part - it's not tit for tat or who owes more, it's simply - when one hurts, so does the other; when one finds good, you share in that, too. That's family.
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#94. But ever since she returned to my life ... life doesn't make complete sense. But it definitely makes more sense than it used to.
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#95. And more than that, the United States of America was a whole new type of nation. Nothing like America had ever been tried before in the history of the world.
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#96. The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.
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#97. There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
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#98. Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.
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#99. That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.
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#100. Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.
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