Formidable Years Quotes

#1. On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

Linus Torvalds

#2. The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. The limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention ... miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

Marlo Morgan

#4. You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

Holliday Grainger

#5. Gender healing and reconciliation consciously invokes this universal love of the heart, which in the end has the capacity to overcome the very real and formidable challenges of gender oppression and injustice that have tormented human societies for literally thousands of years

William Keepin

#6. China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Jo Ann Emerson

#7. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

Beryl Markham

#8. Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

Diana Peterfreund

#9. I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I'm gonna want to high five you in the face with a hammer before we reach New York.

Eden Summers

#10. 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.

Michael Chabon

#11. The world's fat is badly divided.

Martha Gellhorn

#12. I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Cameron Diaz

#13. To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

Paul A. Baran