David Baldacci

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn__ have yards or even feet of success to show off.

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It__ been my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they__e going. For them it__ the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. That__ why trains are so popular at Christmas. People get on to meet their country over the holidays. They__e looking for some friendship, a warm body to talk to. People don__ rush on a train, because that__ not what trains are for. How do you put a dollar value on that? What accounting line does that go on?

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.

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

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 __m, fund __m, embrace and cherish __m.

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.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.