Formidable Quotes

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.

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 only serve the agenda of the heart.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!