Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team.… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because… — Henri Weenink Copy Share Image
I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The… — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
