Top 34 Staggers Quotes
#1. When the personal soul life is burnt to ashes, a woman loses the vital treasure and begins to get dry boned as Death. In her unconscious, the desire for the red shoes, a wild joy, not only continues, it swells and floods, and eventually staggers to its feet and takes over, ferocious and famished.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#2. God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!
Billy Graham
#3. I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
Matt Roper
#4. But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
#5. Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)
David Eso
#6. The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
Muhammad Iqbal
#7. I like my body. I don't want to have to change it for anything - even if that means I have to take a step down as a dancer. I don't think I'm ever going to sacrifice my figure for anyone else to accept me.
Sarah Hay
#8. Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.
Carl Sagan
#9. Jack Sparrow: [empties bottle of rum] Why is the rum always gone? [stands up and staggers drunkenly] Oh... that's why.
Jack Sparrow
#10. It had started to worry me that if I wasn't careful my meekness could become a habit, a tic, something hardwired that my mannerisms would continue to express throughout my life regardless of my efforts - the way a drunk who, though in the wagon, still staggers and slurs like a drunk.
Lorrie Moore
#11. Is it possible that that "thing" walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you, is a great glob of these atoms in a very complex arrangement, such that the sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do? When
Richard Feynman
#12. If you wait until you're ready, you'll be dead," Stella says. "And, as a life strategy, I don't really recommend it.
Menna Van Praag
#13. There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
Gladys Taber
#14. Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.
Walter Brueggemann
#15. The diversity of this man staggers me completely. This man is a brutal, demanding sex Lord in one breath, and a tender, gentle lover in the next. I love all elements of him, every single one.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#16. For the others, like me, there is only the flash
Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one
Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass
To meet one's madness
W. H. Auden
#17. Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
Eric Hoffer
#18. The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
Gerrit Smith
#19. Eventually, Leon's voice limps from his chest and staggers out of his mouth.
Kate Tempest
#20. What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?
Billy Connolly
#21. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom
T. S. Eliot
#22. The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me ... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.
-Streetwalking with Jesus
John Green
#23. From heart to heart
a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven.
Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven
than to pass through each others' eyes
Bill Knott
#24. It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.
Kevin Whately
#25. The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.
Doug Casey
#26. You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.
Jeremy Roenick
#27. Light staggers through the trees.
Every moment is filled with other moments.
Richard Jackson
#28. A drunk staggers out of a bar and sees a nun standing at a bus stop. He walks up to her and punches her in the face. When she falls to the ground, he starts screaming, "You're not so tough now, are you, Batman?
Various
#29. That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.
Yann Martel
#30. Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another's burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first.
Spencer W. Kimball
#31. My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn't know when to stay down.
Alexis Hall
#32. I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.
Douglas Preston
#33. I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
Eric Stoltz
#34. By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.
William Powers
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