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Quotes About Staggering

It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book I've ever.
~ Justin Hartley
We protect the American people from a staggering range of threats. But make no mistake, securing the homeland against terrorism remains our top priority.
~ Christopher A. Wray
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
I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.
~ Conor McPherson
compensating for utter vacuity with numerically staggering indulgence, hoping to make up in sheer repetition of experience what was missing in depth and meaning.
~ Mary Doria Russell
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
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.
~ J. I. Packer
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
these past months have been hard on me and I'm quite confused—physically, mentally and emotionally drained. I feel like a wounded animal stuck with spears, staggering around aimlessly. . . . I keep going on like there is nothing wrong. Sooner or later I will break. I want to break, to let it go in an agonizing wail—but I just can't seem to let it out.
~ Bret Hart
staggering gait. I wonder if he's with the wedding
~ Steve Martini
If they were to eliminate all those who were homosexually oriented, the number would be so staggering that it would be like an atomic bomb. It would do the same damage to the Church's operation," Sipe said. "And it's very much against the tradition of the Church. Many saints had a gay orientation. And many popes had gay orientations. Discriminating against orientation is not going to solve the problem.
~ The Boston Globe
In July of 2018, WWE announced that it had signed the most lucrative television deal in history, a five-year deal with USA and FOX totaling a staggering $2.3 billion. The irony is that ratings for RAW and SmackDown were hitting all-time lows.
~ Bryan Alvarez
I [Miryem] went staggering to all the shelves in the room, looking for anything left to change, and when I didn't find anything after going round three times, I just stood there stupidly for a few more moments, and then I lay down on my mountain of gold like an improbable dragon and fell asleep without meaning to do so.
~ Naomi Novik
the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo. The empire encompassed every imaginable type of terrain, from the rainforest of upper Amazonia to the deserts of the Peruvian coast and the twenty-thousand-foot peaks of the Andes between.
~ Charles C. Mann
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
~ Kevin Smith
A Drunkard I've never been an individual entity. Sixty trillion cells! I'm a living collectivity. I'm staggering zigzag along, sixty trillion cells, all drunk.
~ Ko Un
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
~ Anais Nin
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
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
~ Nick Harkaway
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
~ Robert Ballard
Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job.
~ Harry Enfield
'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
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