Top 150 David Baldacci Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that’s all you need for a major life change: a dream.”

— David Baldacci

102. “Well, honey, I’m a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don’t have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging ’til I drop.”

— David Baldacci

103. “But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.”

— David Baldacci

104. “At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?”

— David Baldacci

105. “My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

— David Baldacci

106. “Lying caused a physiological reaction that cut the flow of blood to the capillaries located at the end of the nose. It caused a tingling feeling that usually made the liar rub at the spot.”

— David Baldacci

107. “Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.”

— David Baldacci

108. “Businesses don’t give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you’ll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.”

— David Baldacci

109. “Humans were imperfect beings operating in a world over which they had diminishing control.”

— David Baldacci

110. “Lots of people don’t talk about their military service.” “I bet heroes do.” “No. 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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “DB. What finally got.”

— David Baldacci

114. “Luther glanced at the framed prints on the nightstand and wryly observed the twenty-something “little woman” next to the seventy-something husband. There were many types of lotteries in the world and not all of them state-run. Several.”

— David Baldacci

115. “Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.”

— David Baldacci

116. “And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.”

— David Baldacci

117. “I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.”

— David Baldacci

118. “It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.”

— David Baldacci

119. “The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank God it’s not me. The news had spread fast. Mars might be getting out after nearly being put to death.”

— David Baldacci

120. “It was the darkest moments before dawn broke. He had been here for hours. It felt like ten minutes, because he really hadn’t come up with anything. But that was okay. Miracles and epiphanies rarely happened in the middle of criminal investigations. If you wanted something like that you needed to turn on the TV.”

— David Baldacci

121. “Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge.” He read the names off the.”

— David Baldacci

122. “I had my papers in for detective before I left. I’ve got my forensics certifications. I notice stuff. I sweat the details. And this is my town,” she added. “I know everybody here. And I mean everybody, because there aren’t that many of us.”

— David Baldacci

123. “Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the “injury,” which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.”

— David Baldacci

124. “That’s what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.”

— David Baldacci

125. “National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. – Kelly Paul.”

— David Baldacci

126. “Robie took a deep, cleansing breath. He had never played well with others. For the last dozen years he had worked in almost total isolation. He preferred it that way. He was better alone than with a team. That’s just how he was built.”

— David Baldacci

127. “Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha’s soul.”

— David Baldacci

128. “Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.”

— David Baldacci

129. “You really think so?” said Robie. “These are guys. All guys think girls talk to each other. They’ll come back for the kid for sure.” “You’re just tryin’ to scare me,” said Emma smugly. Reel shrugged. “We don’t need to. They killed one sister. They’ve probably got Sara now. They’ll kill her too, like they tried to do last night.” “What?” said Emma, looking startled. “Robie, I’m telling you, let’s just ride.”

— David Baldacci

130. “A politician and his entourage on the campaign trail were like a herd of elephants: they could travel nowhere lightly. They stomped the earth until it hurt with the weight of the guards, chiefs of staff, spokespersons, speechwriters, publicity folks, gofers and others. It was a spectacle that if it didn’t make you laugh would at least cause you considerable worry about the future of the country.”

— David Baldacci

131. “It’s not so much that time heals all wounds, as it is the passage of the years that lets us make peace with our grief in our own way.”

— David Baldacci

132. “She works in the intelligence field. They’re trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.”

— David Baldacci

133. “We’ve got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody.”

— David Baldacci

134. “The police, he knew, had already copied the.”

— David Baldacci

135. “For me, the Canyon isn’t just a tourist destination. It’s a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.”

— David Baldacci

136. “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

137. “He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.”

— David Baldacci

138. “You have to give it thought when you’re changing your whole life.”

— David Baldacci

139. “The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.”

— David Baldacci

140. “Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.”

— David Baldacci

141. “The money folks will forgive a lot if the cash keeps rolling in. Same goes for the government.”

— David Baldacci

142. “We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?”

— David Baldacci

143. “Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn’t pay the ransom.” “No, they did but they got it back – well, at least most of it.”

— David Baldacci

144. “Even though we weren’t old, we were old with all we carried inside.”

— David Baldacci

145. “All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.”

— David Baldacci

146. “Simply because you’ve lived through something doesn’t mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.”

— David Baldacci

147. “You are a danger to her and all of Wormwood, Vega, do you not understand that?”

— David Baldacci

148. “Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off.”

— David Baldacci

149. “Nobody likes to admit they were suckered. It’s easier on the psyche to keep living the lie.”

— David Baldacci

150. “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