Formidable Quotes

152 quotes by 127 authors

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the… — Antonin Artaud
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. — Wentworth Miller
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 seems… — Jacques Maritain
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has… — D. W Brogan
Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÃ‡ateur is identical with the Principe GÃ‡nÃ‡rateur of… — Albert Pike
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of… — Franz Stampfl
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say… — Ronald Reagan
The noble entitlement bespeaks an Ã©lan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from… — Kevin McKenzie
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… — Giulio Douhet
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 be… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope… — John Stuart Mill
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… — Horace Mann
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but… — Joe Locke
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the… — Bill Walsh
Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. — Alan Cohen
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if… — Edwin A. Abbott

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