Top 100 Baldacci Quotes
#1. The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make doing what I do.
Nelson DeMille
#2. 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.
David Baldacci
#3. You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know how you survived it, Amos, I really don't." "Why'd
David Baldacci
#4. I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They
David Baldacci
#5. Between bites Jackson said, "So what's our next move?" Sawyer looked
David Baldacci
#7. It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern's walls.
David Baldacci
#8. 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.
David Baldacci
#9. People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They
David Baldacci
#10. But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.
David Baldacci
#11. Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And
David Baldacci
#13. Who's taking care of you?" "Them, for now," said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. "Is she in protective
David Baldacci
#15. Vega, death is only fear. Without fear, there is no death. Without death, there are no bars. Without bars, there is only freedom.
David Baldacci
#16. Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.
David Baldacci
#17. Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration
David Baldacci
#18. 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.
David Baldacci
#19. If you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
David Baldacci
#20. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.
David Baldacci
#21. We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.
David Baldacci
#22. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
David Baldacci
#23. 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.
David Baldacci
#25. 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.
David Baldacci
#26. 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.
David Baldacci
#27. were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.
David Baldacci
#28. I'm actin' pro se. Do you even know what that means?" "Yeah, it's Latin for 'dumbass.
David Baldacci
#29. Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica,
David Baldacci
#30. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.
David Baldacci
#31. Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
John Baldacci
#32. That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.
Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
David Baldacci
#33. Something always leads to something else. - John Puller
David Baldacci
#35. Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit?
David Baldacci
#37. It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was a gulag. It actually was hell, near the Taedong River in North Korea's P'yongan-namdo province.
David Baldacci
#38. Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and
David Baldacci
#39. To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one
David Baldacci
#40. was already gone for good. "Hello, who is this?" Watson wasn't slurring his words.
David Baldacci
#41. Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
John Baldacci
#42. Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.
David Baldacci
#43. Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.
David Baldacci
#44. KING & MAXWELL SERIES Split Second Hour Game Simple Genius First Family The Sixth Man
David Baldacci
#45. You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.
David Baldacci
#46. Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha's soul.
David Baldacci
#47. Discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications
David Baldacci
#48. The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
John Baldacci
#49. Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.
David Baldacci
#50. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton,
David Baldacci
#51. 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.
David Baldacci
#52. Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
David Baldacci
#53. People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.
David Baldacci
#55. 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.
David Baldacci
#56. Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
David Baldacci
#59. They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten.
David Baldacci
#60. the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.
David Baldacci
#61. Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge. He read the names off the
David Baldacci
#62. When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
David Baldacci
#63. 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.
David Baldacci
#65. 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.
David Baldacci
#66. tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners
David Baldacci
#67. time - quite the reverse. Puller hadn't even reached his Malibu when he heard the man.
David Baldacci
#68. 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.
David Baldacci
#69. entirely clear over the screams of the crowds. The
David Baldacci
#71. goes to the cottage. They may place her in Witness Protection without warning,
David Baldacci
#72. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
David Baldacci
#73. The green spaces in Pyongyang were immense and many in number, but not as immense as the monuments.
David Baldacci
#74. Ordinarily Robie would police his brass. But he was chambering dum-dum rounds tonight, so most likely they would stay inside her.
David Baldacci
#75. Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory
David Baldacci
#76. Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
David Baldacci
#77. have under his thumb powerful congressmen, senators, even the vice president himself,
David Baldacci
#78. Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So keep 'em, fund 'em, embrace and cherish 'em.
David Baldacci
#80. 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
David Baldacci
#82. In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
David Baldacci
#83. In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.
David Baldacci
#84. The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.
David Baldacci
#85. 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.
David Baldacci
#86. It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
David Baldacci
#87. 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,
David Baldacci
#88. The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.
David Baldacci
#89. Had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of,
David Baldacci
#90. He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.
David Baldacci
#91. IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.
David Baldacci
#92. John was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that
David Baldacci
#93. I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.
David Baldacci
#94. Facts are irrefutable. Truths coming from those facts can be difficult to accept, particularly when they are of a personal nature. But truths, Agent Puller, cannot be ignored. Any more than lies can. And people do lie to themselves. All the time. We
David Baldacci
#97. Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.
David Baldacci
#100. more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already
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