Quixotically Quotes

#1. The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Michael Lewis

#2. The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

J. F. C. Fuller

#3. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

Daniel Horan

#4. In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Jack Kevorkian

#5. Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

Dan Wells

#6. Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

Howard Schultz

#7. If you have no idea what I'm about to do, just watch and wait..then you'll see time spin to a stop right before your eyes..and you'll forget that world you once knew

Lenise Lee

#8. Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Joe Biden

#9. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Stephen Covey

#10. I came up from a difficult background.

Gordon Ramsay

#11. IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.

Haruki Murakami

#12. And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.

John Boehner

#13. Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.

Sarah Ockler

#14. I want you to keep this on, always. And think of me. i want to always be on your mind," he says tenderly. "As you are always on mine.

S.L. Jennings

#15. For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

K Callan

#16. Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Anatoli Boukreev

#17. You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees ... the birth parents' ... and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.

Sherrie Eldridge

#18. These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.

Pessoa, Fernando