Formidable Quotes - Page 3

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

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Truth, Earth

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• Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

  Michael Gove

  Two, Finals, Campaigns

  "Conservative leadership: Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom in battle to be prime minister after Michael Gove eliminated from contest" by Danny Boyle, Ben Riley-Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 7, 2016.

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• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Kings, Play, Numbers

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• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

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• The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Mountain, Literature

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• I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would be hard to dislike this man. I don't know why, but I'm sure other directors have felt the same when casting him. Oliver is goofy yet formidable, smart but likeable... I didn't want the character of Alex to be nasty or demonised. I wanted him to be struggling with his actions.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Smart, Struggle, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.

  Erik Rutan

  War, Focus, Challenges

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think in theory, Donald Trump could be a formidable candidate, right? The theory of him is, if he ignites working class white voters, he can put Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, states like Ohio in play for the Republicans.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Ohio, Class

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think a lot of Democrats I know, who will vote in the Democratic primary and vote for the Democratic nominee and later general, they go back and forth between two feelings. One is oh, my God, I`m terrified. Maybe this guy will be formidable in a general.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool.

  Adam Cole

  Character, Champion, Black

  Source: 411mania.com

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Demand, Belief

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• Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.

  Michael Gove

  Country, Winning, Skills

  "Conservative leadership: Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom in battle to be prime minister after Michael Gove eliminated from contest" by Danny Boyle, Ben Riley-Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 7, 2016.

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• Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Fighting, Hazards

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• 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.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Religious, Men, Hunting

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Brother, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Mean, Class, Two

  Edwin A. Abbott (2017). “Flatland”, p.17, BookRix

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Military, People, May

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• [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.

  Francis Galton

  Cutting, Math, Men

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

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• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

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• The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

  Jules Henry

  Men, Self, Experience

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• Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

  Natalie Portman

  Clinton, Candidates

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate. I think we're lucky to have someone as smart and capable and strong as she is wanting to be our president.

  Natalie Portman

  Strong, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Harry Truman, Body

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• I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.

  Maria Shriver

  Men, Males, World

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