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

Needs Character Reality Break Tough Prison Formidable Prison Break

Author:Wentworth Miller

“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.”

Firsts Sometimes Moments Bigs Seems America Waiting Sea Ocean Currents Storm Arise Formidable

Author:Jacques Maritain

“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."”

People Has Beens Country America Dies Enemy Roots Germany Japan Primitive Motto North America Formidable Hog

Author:D. W Brogan

“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.”

“Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.”

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

Believe Belief Depends Tasks Reform Emancipation Formidable

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.”

May Accepting Christianity Style Return Worship Jew Abandon Adversaries Identical Paganism Formidable Jehovah

Author:Albert Pike

“Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... 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.”

Knows Men World Looks Mean Dream Realizing Moral Hero Cost Weapons Men And Women Terror Presidential Heroic Inflation Free Man Arsenal Formidable Moral Courage Runaway

Author:Ronald Reagan

“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.”

Mean Certain Type Noble Technique Partners Excitement Ballet Elegance Entitlement Formidable

Author:Kevin McKenzie

“Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.”

Enough Would Be Enemy Normal Destruction Sight Constant Threat Aviation Airplane Panic Normal Life Formidable Air Power Airpower

Author:Giulio Douhet

“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”

Self Would Be Purpose Steps Democracy Journey Creating Standards Universal Democratic Formidable

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.”

People Force Very Good Governors Good Friend Formidable Very Good Friends

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.”

World Humanity Next Social Team Stage Evolution Guides Transition Compassionate Citizenship Formidable Blueprints

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.”

People Truth Evil Sides Half Effects Quiet Conflict Prejudice Errors Violent Cease Falsehood Both Sides Exaggerated Suppression Formidable

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.”

Body Law Fall Water Subjects Rivers Increase Resistance Temptation Yield Attributes Repetition Diminish Formidable Ratios Velocity

Book:Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

“Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.”

“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.”

Way Writing Heart Stories Musician Intellect Technique Agendas Great Music Formidable Great Musician

Author:Joe Locke

“Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.”

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

Way Seems Ego Frail Formidable

Author:Alan Cohen

“To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.”

“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.”

Ifs May Mean Two Speak Class Creatures Female Add Soldier Invisible Perceive Needles Formidable Triangles Extremity Wedges

Book:Flatland

Source: Flatland

“A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less formidable when questions which divide the entire nation are involved, for then it must take on organized labor and other large organized groups. The business community in the aggregate is for this reason not uniquely effective as a pressure group.”

Matter Reason Force Nations Community Powerful Groups Particular Industry Involved Labor Pressure Organized Divides Formidable Small Groups Organized Labor Pressure Groups

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

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

Thinking Long Use Taken Weapons Formidable Kinky

Author:Anne Desclos

“To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.”

“... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.”

“Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Team Rings Hooked Formidable Double Standard

Author:Owen Hart

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

Wells Causes Enemy Threat Formidable

Author:Donald E. Williams, Jr.

“Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.”

Space Enemy Focus Imagine Ignorance Perspective Infinite Conquer Limitation Humankind Expanding Foe Formidable Infinite Space

Author:Vanna Bonta

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

Grace Mixtures Formidable

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”

“The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.”

“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.”

World Art Artist Taste Pity Combination Engaged Plus Predator Formidable

Book:Imaginative qualities of actual things

Source: Imaginative qualities of actual things

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”

Long Government Political Politics Security Secure Opposition Formidable

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

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

Thinking Would Be Television Tools Wide Subconscious Formidable Analysts

Author:Serge Daney

“In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband and wife. If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.”

“But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

“The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.”

“The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.”

Years Government Turns Principles Objects Periods Tyranny Voting Executives Dread Sole Legislature Formidable

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.”

People World Dangerous Determination Lays Starting Doctrine Frontiers Invasion Formidable Starting Out

Author:Winston Churchill

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

Pain Happiness Spirit Lying Laughter Tasks Disappointment Tension Formidable

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.”

Enemy Kings March Allies Uniforms Patriot Formidable Benedict Arnold

Author:Chuck Baldwin

“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.”

Trying Made War Reason Religion Order Atheism Policy Argument Positive Atheism Substitutes Objections Formidable

Book:The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

“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.”

“A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

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

Greater Achievement Performances Defeat Athlete Conquer Rivals Formidable Distance Runner Distance Running Cross Country Running

Author:Franz Stampfl

“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.”

People World Political Force Sides Challenges Greater Media Majors Weapons Remains Political Power Formidable

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.”

Men Law Life Is Religious Emotion Mystery Divine Terrible Conflict Paid Hunting Laws Of Nature Transcendent Homage Formidable Rite Grandiose Confluence

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

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

Seems Strong Argument Command Smallest Formidable Strong Words

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“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.”

Years Economic Building Europe Unions Population China Infrastructure Rivals European Union Formidable

Author:Jo Ann Emerson

“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.”

Knows Wells Children Jobs Victim Family And Friends Erotic Formidable Marvellous Older Women

Author:Francesca Annis