David Baldacci Quotes

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

John Paul Jones was probably clinically committable, but that doesn’t take anything away fro him as a hero.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

I've always had antiheroes in my film.

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Heroes come along when you need them.

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible