Quotes About Perseverance

David Baldacci

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.

Whether it was on the battlefield or during an investigation, if you weren't moving forward then what good were you?

David Baldacci

was dark. He scooted over to the chair that his butt had graced so often he'd worn off the paint. The trach was in her neck, the way they did it for long-term usage, because, for among other reasons, it was easier to keep clean than when it was down the throat. The attached ventilator was pumping away, keeping her lungs inflated. The vitals sign monitor beeped away. One end of an

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vacant at first light. Yet she carried

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.

en Washington no había realmente vencedores y vencidos, solo supervivientes.

David Baldacci

comments because he needed Slick to

Tyler. The boy immediately broke out into

But don't sit here and think that you're cured, because that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don't lie to themselves and everyone else. They don't sit on their ass and sink deeper into a pathetic existence while denying anything's wrong at all. They have balls not bullshit. And I'm pretty much fed up with yours.

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David Baldacci

can do this. You can make it. Forty miles per hour. He pushed the throttles ahead and crept the speed stick up to forty-five. He was almost topped out now. Even with the twin stern-drive engines he wouldn't be able to muster more speed without unduly depleting his fuel. And there

David Baldacci

never been faced with something like this. I have our people here working on it, but don't expect a fast answer.

and out of his life. As he

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

It was like Julie had said. 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

I remember thinking about her that it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

that neither of them had seen before. "If people