Frontispiece From Davinci Quotes

#1. The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn't rained, they'd be bitching because their crops were small, even if the prices were high. You couldn't win with farmers.

John Sandford

#2. Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Boethius

#3. You probably think I'm a floosy," she went on.

"A floosy?" he whispered back, and chuckled. "First off, I love that you said 'floosy.' Second, you're crazy. I hope you kiss me like that again." He leaned in close. "And again and again.

S. Walden

#4. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

#5. Real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

Paul Tillich

#6. The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

Milton Friedman

#7. You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike

#8. This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.

Jeff VanderMeer

#9. Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.

Baltasar Gracian

#10. There is no better life coach than LIFE, you attend class everyday, all you have to do is listen to the message

Carl Henegan

#11. Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

Frank Turner

#12. Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Alexandra Ripley

#13. President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

Paul Ryan