Quixotic Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

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
It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent. — James M. Barrie
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
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
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
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: