Top 276 Formidable Quotes & Sayings

Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

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 a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

All chain saws are formidable and dangerous.

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

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

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

Ram Kapoor is a formidable actor.

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

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

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

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

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Women power is a formidable force.

I've proved I'm a formidable opponent.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

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 day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

When Princess Leia hit the scene in 1977, she was a pretty formidable character.

That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.

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

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

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

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

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

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

Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Let me tell you, the jodhpur in the world of fashion is a formidable adversary to the trouser. It gives automatic swagger to anyone who wears them.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

I look formidable.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

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

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

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

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.