You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people. — Ethel Wilson Copy Share Image
Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically… — William James Copy Share Image
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
