Tilt At Windmills Quotes

#1. I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

Carly Fiorina

#2. Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little end,
And never raise a rebel cry!

John Galsworthy

#3. The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.

Colin MacInnes

#4. There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Aldo Leopold

#5. Perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her

Nevada Barr

#6. I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.

Sarah Silverman

#7. You never knows where a spark may drop and a fire begin to run.

George Manville Fenn

#8. All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#10. 1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.

Paul Strathern

#11. My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Adam Sandler