Quixotic Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
— Chris Hedges
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
— James Gleick
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of…
— Robert McNamara
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure…
— Barry S. Strauss
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The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
— Ezra Pound
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Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation…
— Gioconda Belli
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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many…
— George Will
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All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,…
— Michael Chabon
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We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for…
— Steven Pinker
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in…
— Gregory Maguire
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It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
— James M. Barrie
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He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not…
— Daniel Wallace
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If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13…
— Ted Cruz
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There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
— Gioconda Belli
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That sadness of something that was once so sweet, sunny and quixotic and then it turns to cold, bitterness and silence.
— Sophie Lianne
Who Wrote These Quixotic Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Quixotic Quotes as follows: