Staggering Quotes

#1. A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water ... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Heraclitus

#2. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Gunter Grass

#3. In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe not even that. Barely visible in the false moonlight. Just outlines. The kids passing a bottle back and forth, taking swigs, staggering.

Michael Grant

#4. Shakespeare used 17,677 words in his writings, of which at least one-tenth had never been used before. Imagine if every tenth word you wrote were original. It is a staggering display of ingenuity. But

Bill Bryson

#5. My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death.

Nalini Singh

#6. You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

Cassandra Clare

#7. The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering ...

Ted Dekker

#8. [I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone ... Well, that fact alone is staggering.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. The sole key to these large-scale successes in the work of God and the staggering results you see in the ministries of anointed men of God has been their abilitity to hear the voice of God and be obedient to it.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#11. There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It was raw sexuality, animalistic in its intensity - and she was starving for it.

Kresley Cole

#12. It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.

Bryant McGill

#13. One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

#14. What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Stephen King

#15. Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

Robin Sharma

#16. I know I'm not going to say good-bye. And if these staggering refugees want to help, if they think they see something bigger here than a boy chasing a girl, then they can help, and we'll see what happens when we say yes while the rigor mortis world screams no.

Isaac Marion

#17. Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The

Oliver Sacks

#18. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Leo Tolstoy

#19. It is staggering the amount of suffering caused by bad ideas.

Marty Rubin

#20. Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.

Elizabeth Knox

#21. Kenzie took two staggering steps backward, staring at the feeline as if in a daze. "O-kay," she breathed, shaking her head slightly. "A cat. A cat that talks. I'm going crazy." she glanced at me. " Or you slipped something into my drink at the tournament. One or the other.

Julie Kagawa

#22. For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere

Rob Bell

#23. Yes, aging can be tough and rough ... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

Norman Corwin

#24. The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000 ... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

Harold Morowitz

#25. At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering realization that despite years of slowly killing myself, all I wanted, with more passion and ferocity than I'd ever wanted anything else in my entire life, was to live.

Kristen Johnston

#26. He hurried back. Walls seemed to shift and advance. Right here, it must be. Wasn't this passage too short? No, it wasn't a wall that blocked his way, only fog. The fog retreated before him - then at once yielded up a wall. Staggering crimson letters caught in the web of graffiti spelled KILLER.

Ramsey Campbell

#27. The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

Paula Deen

#28. The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.

Barbara Kingsolver

#29. If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

Robert Kennedy

#30. The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

Richard Dawkins

#31. The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

Vince Cable

#32. Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated?

Aziz Ansari

#33. Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

Tahereh Mafi

#34. Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#35. I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#36. Later we can go to dinner."
"I suppose that might work," she said.
She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't going to alter destinies and change the fate of nations.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#37. The numbers are staggering. I swear I read somewhere that in every one thousand times a couple has unprotected sex, they'll get pregnant one billion times.

Jenn Cooksey

#38. Thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. By a totally staggering coincidence that is also the

Douglas Adams

#39. The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Tom Rath

#40. We are placed here in this world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a staggering one.

Deepak Chopra

#41. Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

Jamie Oliver

#42. You brought me here to admire the view?" I whisper. He nods, his expression serious.
"It's staggering, Christian. Thank you," I murmur, letting my eyes feast on it once more. He releases my hand.
"How would you like to look at it for the rest of your life?" he breathes.

E.L. James

#43. For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.

Scott Jurek

#44. There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason ... She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

Steven Morrissey

#45. Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Tristan Tzara

#46. The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

J.I. Packer

#47. Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#48. Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Jessica Capshaw

#49. I keep staggering forward because I have to, but what Linden said last night is true: It's not much of a plan.

Lauren DeStefano

#50. Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way ... (Jace)

Cassandra Clare

#51. The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

James Scott Bell

#52. The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery.

Steven Pinker

#53. I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country. Whole groups of bodies jerking out of control, falling on the floor, laughing hysterically, staggering around like drunkards Anything that cannot be found in Scripture has to be rejected outright - totally rejected,

David Wilkerson

#54. There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

William McFee

#55. For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.

Fred Krupp

#56. Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

Arthur C. Clarke

#57. The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Winnie Byanyima

#58. Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Daisaku Ikeda

#59. I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

Donald Miller

#60. Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

Katherine Dunn

#61. Sometimes I just wonder.
Do we believe that God revolves around us?
Or, do we believe that we revolve around God?
These are staggering questions.

Brandon Andress

#62. Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor.

Charles R. Swindoll

#63. I think of him now, ragged and lost, staggering across a desert, the path behind him littered with all the shiny little pieces that life has ripped from him.

Khaled Hosseini

#64. People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Michael Zaslow

#65. If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

Paul McCartney

#66. The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

Martin McGuinness

#67. Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

Mona Charen

#68. God as a helpless baby, he could only lie, stare, wriggle, make noises. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets!

J.I. Packer

#69. Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.

Sarah Lacy

#70. To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

Kathy Griffin

#71. Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

Frederick Buechner

#72. If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Samuel West

#73. Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Michael Moss

#74. We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

Barry Goldwater

#75. Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#76. Staggering to her feet, Ceony stomped her shoe down on the hand twice before it stopped moving. She stomped it twice more for insurance.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#77. To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

Jonathan V. Last

#78. Thereafter, staggering semiparalytic down the night streets, he would often ask passing policemen if they knew the way to Betelgeuse.

Douglas Adams

#79. One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven ... works have a place
but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Ravi Zacharias

#80. I scratch down happiness, I
want my ink to do happy dances,
to careen across the pages staggering
like a drunken fellow, giddy
on moonshine or sunset.

Bryana Johnson

#81. We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

James C. Collins

#82. Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

Nick Harkaway

#83. And then as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer.

Stephenie Meyer

#84. The impact was so abrupt that those who were standing were suddenly hurled forward, staggering like drunkards while they tried to regain their balance.

Rob Mundle

#85. As we're staggering out of the hospital, I don't remember doing this because I was still high, but apparently I turned to the entire operating room staff and screamed "Hey! I'd better not see this on YouTube!"

Bill Engvall

#86. The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

David Knopfler

#87. Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

Jojo Moyes

#88. She must be a rare, staggering beauty to make you so faithful." Gods save them all. He could have sworn Fenrys coughed behind him.

Sarah J. Maas

#89. The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

Michael Reagan

#90. The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

John Szarkowski

#91. The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer

Buddy Wakefield

#92. It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

J.I. Packer

#93. They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. "My God I'll never take another drink," said the first. "My God I'll never go to another movie." How's that for commitment?

John Berryman

#94. If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Stephen Fry

#95. There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#96. But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

John Wyndham

#97. The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

Helen Beardsley

#98. The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.

Nicholas Royle

#99. We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Arne Duncan

#100. My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Thomas Dewey