The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any…

When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks…

— Mark Mobius

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come…

— Walter Lippmann

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

— Jacques Maritain

The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back…

— Wernher von Braun

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Eric Hoffer

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy…

— Alan Greenspan

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

— Hannah More

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper

For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle -…

— Erik Rutan

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way,…

— Joe Locke