Formidable Quotes
152 quotes by 127 authors
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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…
— Anthony Minghella
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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a…
— E. M. Forster
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all…
— Zola Jesus
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Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
— Jon Brion
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Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over…
— Eric Hoffer
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I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their…
— Samuel Adams
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Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith…
— Leon Wieseltier
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The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
— Andrew Cuomo
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of…
— Dree Hemingway
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
— Eric Hoffer
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I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such…
— Anthony Hopkins
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill…
— Charles Krauthammer
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