David Baldacci Quotes

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

I think quite often, being on the new set is not what you expect. The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious. I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules. I just think it really depends on your director and what the general vibe is.

Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.