It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the… — George Will Copy Share Image
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned.… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
“Dare to change the world There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality.… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
