Formidable Quotes

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

The Eagles do have a formidable batting line-up, but I have a lot of confidence in my bowlers. There's been nothing wrong with their ability to operate under pressure, and the attack has great variety and the experience that is so crucial in this competition.

With Honda he has the potential to be a formidable competitor. We've worked with Honda in the past and they've proved they will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

He's always been tough to deal with. He's a formidable adversary, and negotiating with him is not a lot of fun. I've done it for a long time.

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor ... to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

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 a formidable journey.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

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 it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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

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 (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

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.

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

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

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.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

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

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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 this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.