Formidable Quotes

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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.

- Ronald Reagan

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.

- Francesca Annis

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.

- Ronald Reagan

No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A lot of her is me. I`ve had this broad under my belt for five years. I own her - and nobody can tell me that I don`t own her. I love every single dimension and component of her being. Her nobility, her flawed character, her laughter, her love of the absurd, her love of the unknown, her love of science... I`ve loved her great heart, her formidable spirit, her guts. She has a much better mind than mine, and a gifted imagination as well, but she`s a little prickly, and certainly not without ego. She has this profound sense of humanity: she can talk to anybody and they listen.

- Kate Mulgrew

(on his typecasting as The Caped Crusader) It was inescapable. I`d just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, "But the audience will think of him as Batman." It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall.

- Adam West

He is a formidable candidate. I think he will do well and we should be proud to have a favorite son running for state wide office.

- Jim Carter

Nothing has changed in our approach. We need to go out there and do what we do best, better than we have been doing it. We have one of the best teams in world rugby coming to our shores. They have some great players, and we have a huge regard for French rugby and their style of play. They will be formidable opponents, and with the championship at stake, they will be making sure they go home with a victory.

- Scott Johnson

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of `cowards` perpetuating `senseless acts of violence` is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

- Charles Krauthammer

When you include the issues that can occur during the processing and distribution stages as well as transport, designing an ocean cargo policy that addresses the full scope of potential pitfalls can be a formidable task. The broad, automatic features and streamlined reporting process offered through Cargo Elite makes it an ideal product for importers and exporters.

- George Butler

(Doubtless, Geelong is more formidable with its captain in some sort of form.) I thought working with Moons chopped me out, it gave me a help all day, ... It was managed pretty well. It`s great to get through it.

- Steven King

They`re equipped with a pretty formidable set of teeth.

- Curtis Taylor

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

- Benjamin Disraeli

No problem is so formidable that you can`t walk away from it.

- Charles M. Schulz

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

- Douglas Hurd

Actually, Governor Bush last week was so generous and gracious in his comments and wished me well and said I would be a formidable candidate.

- Katherine Harris

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.

- Barbara De Angelis

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.

- Brit Hume

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

- Aaron McFarland

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

- Abby Smith

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.

- Aislinn Ryan

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

- Alexander Surikov

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.

- Alfred Kugal

The formidable Heights of Abraham are now surmounted; and the city of Quebec, the object of all our toils, now stands in full view before us.

- Alfredo Rangel

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.

- Amy Popp

(Statistics are) the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man

- Angele Davis

They are a very formidable opponent,

- Ant West

Every Western industrialised nation faces the same issues of an ageing society that needs migrants, a sceptical public and some hostile media. In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I`m still optimistic; we just have to focus on bringing together the needs of our societies and the aspirations of migrant families.

- Antwi Atuahene

This is a mature industry. You`re really talking top-line growth in the 3 percent range, and here you have Wal-Mart, a very formidable competitor, adding as much square footage every year as the top three competitors combined,

- Bahram Mobasher

(William Nelson says that) one of the more difficult challenges for makers of blister packaging continues to be the development of foil blister materials that are both functionally child resistant and senior friendly. ... This has been a formidable challenge over the years. There is new innovative technology appearing on the horizon to successfully bridge this technical gap. Alcoa is working to reengineer the kind of package that will pass the child-resistant protocol test. It will be a combination of new packaging materials and blister design.

- Barry C. Forbes

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.

- Vanna Bonta

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent

- Maya Angelou

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Don Williams, Jr

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. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero