“ Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 3K
“ The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.3K
“ There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. ”
- Margaret Lee Runbeck- Copy
- 2.6K
“ You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.9K
“ No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 1.8K
“ No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ”
- Charles Shultz- Copy
- 775
“ It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 611
“ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence. ”
- Harold Laki- Copy
- 453
“ Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ”
- Charles Schulz- Copy
- 923
“ No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ”
- Charles M. Schulz- Copy
- 1.1K
“ An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 645
“ Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers — the rich. ”
- Stephen Bayley- Copy
- 345
“ The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 179
“ Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you, in the name of your principles, the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 3.9K
“ When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid — in which case all comment is superfluous — or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. ”
- Miguel de Unamuno- Copy
- 850
“ The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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 thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. ”
- Charles Krauthammer- Copy
- 955
“ It is the formidable character of the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult, even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or paint pictures unless he is an optimist? ”
- Lionel Tiger- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It was inescapable. I'd just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, 'But the audience will think of him as Batman.' It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall. ”
- Adam West- Copy
- 2.9K
“ What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ They tell us, sir," continued Mr. Henry, "that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger. Will it be the next week or the next year?…Shall we gain strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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