Top 100 David Baldacci Quotes
#1. The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
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#2. I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They
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#3. In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.
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#4. Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And
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#6. Vega, death is only fear. Without fear, there is no death. Without death, there are no bars. Without bars, there is only freedom.
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#7. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
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#8. If you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
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#9. So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
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#10. Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
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#11. He was the one who told us about Ivo Mesic hightailing it out of there on the day the Ukrainian tried to kill you at DB.
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#12. Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica,
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#13. Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit?
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#15. Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and
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#16. To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one
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#17. Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha's soul.
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#18. People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit.
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#20. Shaw didn't answer, He didn't know anything, not for sure. But what he did have was an instict that almost never led him down the wrong path. And every inner warning signal he had was blaring away.
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#22. They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten.
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#23. the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.
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#24. Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge. He read the names off the
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#25. When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
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#26. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.
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#28. If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.
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#29. time - quite the reverse. Puller hadn't even reached his Malibu when he heard the man.
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#30. They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.
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#31. goes to the cottage. They may place her in Witness Protection without warning,
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#32. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
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#33. have under his thumb powerful congressmen, senators, even the vice president himself,
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#34. Room peering out, a gun in one hand, his other hand curled around the window drape. "Dad?" said Tyler in a shaky voice. Wingo held up a hand to quiet his son. He lingered at the window for a few more minutes, his gaze running up and down the streets, to the tops of the buildings and
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#35. Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
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#36. Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi,
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#37. He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.
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#38. IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.
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#42. It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between ... This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something
you just have to want to learn its rhythm.
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#43. She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.
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#44. He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The
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#46. I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.
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#47. As accustomed as he was to the ever-expanding muscle of technology, even Jason Archer had to shake his head occasionally over what was really out there. Iris scanners were also used to closely monitor worker productivity. Jason grimaced. Truth be known, Orwell had actually underestimated.
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#48. But if they are adopted there is no traitor blood issue,
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#50. People who read are a lot more tolerant than people who don't.
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#51. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy
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#53. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.
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#54. I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.
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#55. Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
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#56. People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
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#58. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.
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#59. He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [ ... ], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.
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#61. Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.
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#62. You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.
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#63. Results in the real world came from slow, dogged work, compiling facts and building conclusions and deductions based on those facts. And a little luck never hurt either. A
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#64. Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.
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#66. This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard's ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the prisoners must. Maybe more than one. Now things, already serious, morphed
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#67. I guess we're all lonely in some way. - Oliver Stone
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#68. There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.
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#69. The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .
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#72. I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
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#73. Pointed out. But the dust disturbances could easily have been covered up as well. Only they weren't, which told Robie that the shooter didn't care if the sniper's nest was discovered. He picked up a long piece of shoe molding that had broken off, knelt down, and, using
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#74. And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal
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#76. Room. It was four a.m. and he had not yet been to sleep.
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#78. I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You
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#79. He had started to forget what it was like to hit one out of the park. After Sullivan
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#80. I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.
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#81. There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert
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#82. Love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.
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#83. In fact, something always leads to something else.
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#84. Reed said he could maybe find out where it came from back at his office. Check the certified mail records.
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#85. Someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate, said Bok.
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#86. When the Fed raises or lowers interest rates, for instance, then that affects the entire economy. Contracts or expands it.
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#87. The car had been returned to the impoundment lot where Luther had "borrowed" it earlier that night. The plate would get them nowhere,
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#88. Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.
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#89. See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner
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#91. Rinehart added, "Which means he's on the East Coast. Or at least he was." Puller continued to stare at Carter. "When did
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#92. Was it a fire in the kitchen?
No, a bomb in the basement.
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#93. Answers to. Maybe the locals already had answers. He would take
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#94. People like to talk about other people's misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn't.
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#95. Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.
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#96. Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
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#98. While it was true that the president of the United States was the world's ultimate juggler of tasks, it was also a fact that the First Lady, traditionally, was no slouch in that department either.
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#99. I'm not sure the dead are really concerned with that. And
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#100. Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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