Formidable Quotes

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The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

Women power is a formidable force.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.