Top 50 Quotes About Stagger
#1. And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
Ogden Nash
#2. He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. Felicia managed to stagger to her feet, open the front door, and limp haltingly to the white limousine idling on the snowy street outside the house. Murphy went to the window to watch Felicia get into the limo and depart.
"Yeah," I said, deadpan. "The little blond woman has two of them.
Jim Butcher
#4. The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are.
Claire North
#5. Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.
Jim Rohn
#6. Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
Samantha Power
#7. The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
John Calvin
#10. Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
Richard Armour
#11. For ages that stagger the imagination this earth spun hot and lifeless, and again for ages of equal vastness it held no life above the level of the animalculae in a drop of ditch-water. Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.
H.G.Wells
#12. When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
Tony Parsons
#13. A drunkard never walks where he can fly.
Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on invisible wings and arrive everywhere much earlier than expected.
Dezso Kosztolanyi
#14. He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under.
Colum McCann
#15. Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number
Steven Cushing
#16. Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials,
With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile.
Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger
From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next ...
Sadat X
#17. And as she'd watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil.
Robert McCammon
#18. There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven, in which the misfortune of one would stagger them all. It was a garment, this life. Its beauty outside, its warmth within.
James Salter
#19. All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
Camille Paglia
#20. Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus
#21. [Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas ... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise."
Arthur Fry
#23. The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
#24. Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.
Nelson Algren
#25. Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent residence in my frontal lobe, I managed to stagger all the way back to the house.
Rachel Hawkins
#26. Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
Vernon Howard
#27. Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?
John Dos Passos
#28. Some men live with an invisible limp,
stagger, or drag
a leg. Their sons are often angry.
Robert Bly
#30. Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
James Gleick
#31. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
Markus Zusak
#32. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham
#33. I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
David Antin
#34. You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.
Sarah Dessen
#35. I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
Andrea McLean
#36. The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
Will Rogers
#37. We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
Fritz Scholder
#38. Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
Hal Sparks
#39. so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In
Laila Lalami
#40. People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
Donia Bijan
#41. I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
Markus Zusak
#42. If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.
Dave Barry
#43. What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?
Gregory Maguire
#44. The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#45. Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
Jeremy Collier
#46. Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.
Erma Bombeck
#47. I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know
and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole, said Stagger Lee.
Nick Cave
#48. And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
Walt Whitman
#49. You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way and let your neighbour go his... Shake off all the props - the props tradition and authority give you - and go alone - crawl - stumble - stagger - but go alone.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
#50. As they lurch down the hallway and finally make it to the kitchen, it occurs to Joe that this is the best anyone can hope for in life. Someone you love to stagger through the hard times with.
Lisa Genova
