Formidable quotes

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Branches #Obstacles #Formidable
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Mean #Formidable #Multitudes
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Fear #Formidable
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Despotism #Formidable
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Grace #Mixtures #Formidable
Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
-- Robert Breault

#Effort #Challenges #Formidable
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

#Truth #Earth #Formidable

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.
Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.