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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Wisdom
Good
Heart
Good Heart
Head
Combination
Always
Formidable
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington
Success
Soul
Army
Discipline
Weak
Small
Makes
Esteem
Formidable
Numbers
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
Today
Courage
Women
World
Will
Men
Free
Men And Women
Our
Moral
Must
Moral Courage
Weapon
Above
Free Men
Adversaries
Arsenal
Formidable
Realize
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
Love
You
Love Is
Joy
Seen
Other
Enough
Possession
More
Could
Invisible
Powerful
Force
Material
Offer
Than
Any
Transform
Cannot
Formidable
Measured
Moment
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer
Mind
Evil
Every
More
Than
Person
Suspicious
Formidable
Doubts
Believes
Lurking
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Work
Working Together
Together
Better
Power
Focused
Fearless
Formidable
Working
Many
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine
Every
Kind
Weapon
Most
Errors
Against
Formidable
Reason
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.
Maya Angelou
Character
Respect
Struggle
Acceptance
Met
Inevitable
Distaste
Outcome
Enthusiastic
Emerges
Fact
Seldom
Adult
Accepted
Female
Amazement
Won
Survivors
American
Often
Formidable
Even
Deserves
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Government
Long
Secure
Without
Opposition
Formidable
A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
Andrew Cuomo
Good
People
Force
Friend
Governor
Very
Formidable
Good Friend
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
Anthony Hopkins
Great
Genius
Personality
World
Cinema
Word
Giant
Insecure
Scared
He
Taking
Most
Geniuses
Sheer
Role
Hitchcock
Formidable
Use
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
Anthony Minghella
Life
Me
Women
Strong
Value
My Life
Enormous
Has-Been
Rather
Fact
Been
Huge
Very
Huge Influence
Influence
Formidable
Grandmother
Presence
Ram Kapoor is a formidable actor.
Asha Bhosle
Ram
Formidable
Actor
True enough, Trump is a formidable foe, and systemic inequalities and disparities are worsening under this administration. But they existed long before that. And I want to lead, organize, and legislate to disrupt these disparate outcomes.
Ayanna Pressley
Long
Before
Enough
This Administration
Foe
Systemic
Administration
Outcomes
Lead
True
True Enough
Inequalities
Existed
Trump
Legislate
Want
Formidable
Organize
Disparate
Disrupt
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
Best
Man
Fool
Examinations
More
Wisest
Wisest Man
Answer
Greatest
Than
May
Formidable
Ask
Even
Prepared
A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.
Dree Hemingway
Saying
You
Man
Woman
Memory
Personality
Fragrance
Weapon
Seduction
Wears
Part
Him
Without
Matches
Integral
Integral Part
Goes
Formidable
Who
Her
'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.
Faye Dunaway
Woman
Strong
Sense
Network
Formidable
Avant-Garde
Playing
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.
Henry Knox
Government
Rebellion
Liberty
Ripe
Having
Shall
Name
Principle
Very
Which
Against
Formidable
Length
Reason
Now
If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.
Isabelle Adjani
Work
Half
Habit
Written
Half Full
Make
Read
Because
Cup
Very
Often
Formidable
Full
Who
Actress
Playing
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.
Jacques Maritain
Sometimes
Wait
Will
First
Big
Ocean
Everything
See
Seems
Arises
Develops
First One
Another
America
Current
Storm
Formidable
Sea
Naught
Moment
Appear
Bring
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber
Man
Husband
Situation
Prestige
Ability
Menace
Poise
Never
Sophistication
Involving
Bed
Gracefully
Formidable
Might
Butler
Cope
Presence
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.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Adversity
Changed
Indeed
Characters
Seeing
Rise
Compulsion
Writer
Take
Crumble
Until
How
Again
Formidable
Interesting
Them
Who
Appear
Grown
Watching
Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
Jeffrey C. Hall
History
Problem
Word
Other
Worse
Would
Would-Be
More
Institutions
Course
Loose
Yiddish
Than
Offering
Any
Informal
Place
Formidable
Far
User-Friendly
Barriers
Even
Even Worse
Fast
Biologist
University
It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!
John Paul Jones
Will
Made
Degree
Superior
Become
State
Our
Unless
Respectable
Distressing
Never
Individuals
Contemplate
Without
Private
America
Establishment
Formidable
Navy
Alas
Last
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
Jon Brion
Music
Spooky
People
Genius
Outside
Like
Looks
Very
Formidable
Realm
My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.
Jovan Adepo
Mom
Courage
Father
Job
Thought
Parents
Stage
Think
Pursue
Never
Had
He
Always
According
Arts
Being
Wanted
Formidable
Grandfather
Full-Time
England
Her
Actually
Raised
Career
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