Baldacci Quotes

But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there. — David Baldacci

But if they are adopted there is no traitor blood issue, — David Baldacci

In this house, speaking and thinking — David Baldacci

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. — David Baldacci

Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair. — David Baldacci

I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They — David Baldacci

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat. — David Baldacci

Both because of the cold and also to help hide his face. — David Baldacci

Cialis." She closed the door of Sean's room with — David Baldacci

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci

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. — David Baldacci

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison. — David Baldacci

now. But I still act like a cop sometimes. — David Baldacci

Preferred entering through the front. — David Baldacci

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell. — David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. — David Baldacci

that that won't be the case." "I don't trust — David Baldacci

Folderol of attention was to die on a football — David Baldacci

In fact, something always leads to something else. — David Baldacci

We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either. — David Baldacci

was already gone for good. "Hello, who is this?" Watson wasn't slurring his words. — David Baldacci

By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, — David Baldacci

Tyree explained, "This man attacked a guard barely — David Baldacci

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

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

and ventured into countries where girls — David Baldacci

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

presidents had to make — David Baldacci

Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration — David Baldacci

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

People who read are a lot more tolerant than people who don't. — David Baldacci

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap — David Baldacci

have security clearances anymore." "So — David Baldacci

KING & MAXWELL SERIES Split Second Hour Game Simple Genius First Family The Sixth Man — David Baldacci

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese. — David Baldacci

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

Trapped in a trap of your own making. — David Baldacci

They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten. — David Baldacci

WINDOW OPENED and the tied-together — David Baldacci

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up! — David Baldacci

They rode in a cab to the rendezvous spot. It was a warehouse, which didn't surprise Shaw.
"It's usually a damn warehouse," he said to Reggie. — David Baldacci

And upper to midcervical spinal cord, above C4. — David Baldacci

that were very familiar. He saw his father. — David Baldacci

It's funny that DiCarlo's security — David Baldacci

entirely clear over the screams of the crowds. The — David Baldacci

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They — David Baldacci

could lie as well — David Baldacci

BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it — David Baldacci

Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And — David Baldacci

intel and no one gave it a second thought. — David Baldacci

Why don't you come by around six? — David Baldacci

Had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of, — David Baldacci

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske) — David Baldacci

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. — David Baldacci

far less than one block in Brooklyn. — David Baldacci

Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so. — David Baldacci

Few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board. — David Baldacci

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

your butt somehow." Jordan shrugged. "I just took — David Baldacci

The truth always matters, — David Baldacci

But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming ... — David Baldacci

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

platform would look, well, abandoned. Not a — David Baldacci

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

Big F took out a small box, unwrapped — David Baldacci

Do you have good encryption — David Baldacci

You ask too many questions," snapped Cletus.
I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers. — David Baldacci

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho — David Baldacci

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right. — David Baldacci

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge. He read the names off the — David Baldacci

Reel called out, It was a backfire, Robie. Car passing the house. — David Baldacci

The girl had never ridden in a car before. She had probably never even seen a car, just the old trucks used at the camp. — David Baldacci

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy. — David Baldacci

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody. — David Baldacci

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved. — David Baldacci

The police, he knew, had already copied the — David Baldacci

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again? — John Baldacci

Who's taking care of you?" "Them, for now," said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. "Is she in protective — David Baldacci

Facing fear is better than running from it," he said.
"What if it's fear you can't beat?"
"Then it might be better to be dead," he answered. — David Baldacci

engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and — David Baldacci

did begin his shooting at — David Baldacci

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between. — David Baldacci

The business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you. — David Baldacci

Reed said he could maybe find out where it came from back at his office. Check the certified mail records. — David Baldacci

To bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out — David Baldacci

silhouette transformed into a man with wide — David Baldacci

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller — David Baldacci

I'm a wicked ping-pong player. — David Baldacci

He would with appropriate alliances. — David Baldacci

Room. It was four a.m. and he had not yet been to sleep. — David Baldacci

You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty. — David Baldacci

Someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate, said Bok. — David Baldacci

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. — David Baldacci

Screen. "Then get your gear and head out." When White looked back moments later, Puller — David Baldacci

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness. — David Baldacci

We deal with them all, — David Baldacci

He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out. — David Baldacci

Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica, — David Baldacci

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to. — David Baldacci

there?" "Doubtful. While — David Baldacci