Best Formidable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

Source: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Ifs Way Years Believe Seems Remember Turns Hours Safe Distance Clouds Moving On Buried I Have Learned Formidable Future Life Leaving The Past Yesteryear

Author:Beryl Markham

“Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.”

Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.”

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

Ideas Dark Lord Formidable

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”

Years Seems Safe Late Distance Clouds I Have Learned Formidable Future Life

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.”

Self Body Light Felt Sun Right Now Pure Sitting Legs Clarity Heat Pushing Chests Sweat Afternoon Brutal Self Control Entry Formidable Fingertips Blazing Bathing Docks Weathered Afternoon Sun

Book:Loving Evangeline

Source: Loving Evangeline

“I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.”

Sometimes Knowing Difficulty Perseverance Quitting Refusal Formidable

Book:The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a low profile.” “Oh, please.” The prince waved a hand at the thief. “I don’t think it will get me killed if this monk knows I’m the king. Look at him. I’ve seen drowned rats more formidable.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Hands Kings Please Lows Importance Casts Anxious Thieves Harsh Rats Monk Profile Formidable

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.”

Wells Children Pay Pieces Tables Revolutionary Chocolate Formidable One Piece

Book:Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel

Source: Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel

“I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.”

“It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.”

Important Bigs Difficult Realizing Decision Life Changing Formidable Susceptible Important Life

Author:Dan Ariely

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

Fear Power Terrorism Formidable Power And Fear

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“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.”

Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.”

Writing Mind Philosophy Might Today Science Spirituality Universe Religious Effort Century Intellect Statements Science And Religion Newton Formidable Isaac Religion Today

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.”

People War Helping Would Be Evil Money Enemy Support Source Months Amount Dollars Spending Billions Cures Shelter Indispensable Helping People Formidable Making Friends

Author:Vanna Bonta

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

Prayer Weapons Efficient Formidable

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.”

“The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.”

Firsts Order Food Battle Army Cooking Dinner Pleasant Culinary Vegetables Participants Formidable

Author:Plutarch

“The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.”

Character Problem Age Birth Ears Lifetime Ugly Noses Sarcastic Ugliness Wrinkles Chins Jars Old Woman Formidable Pickles Bad Character Trigonometry

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

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

Men Feelings Enemy Contempt Scorn Prudent Formidable

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.”

“This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“They tell us, sir, 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? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?”