Quotes About Formidable

For this reason I consider that troops composed of boys of twenty, under experienced leadership, are the most formidable.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

As climbers thronged the scope of Everest, the Rupal Face retained its solitude, remaining a formidable oabjective.

Petr Yan's a tough dude.

Alan Shearer was tough, would be hard to play against, a difficult opponent.

Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.

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.

her umbrella was of the same style as that of their formidable friend from Egypt, solid enough to knock a man unconscious, with a sharpened ferrule that could, at a pinch, be used to stab someone.

T. Rex don't need no dynamite.

Such despondency is rarely psychologically devastating, but when combined with defensive reasoning, it can result in a formidable predisposition against learning.

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

Questions create the only light that can permeate a formidable truth.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

And then there is the ego, perhaps the most formidable creation of the default mode network, which strives to defend us from threats both internal and external.

YOU THINK GIDEON'S SCARY? Wait 'til you get a load of me.

I'm an intimidating figure.

he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.

Deep in her soul—it was the deepest thing there—lay a belief that if a certain light should dawn she could give herself completely; but this image, on the whole, was too formidable to be attractive.

Looking as sharp as Sweeney Todd's razor, Roger struck a formidable figure as he donned his smart clothes and tie. At times, he would often talk of the night of his career when he fought John Conteh. He took the defeat of that match very personally and would often punch out a drunk who scoffed at his midlands accent and his past pride and glory.

Anthony Smith is super tough.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?