Staggering Quotes

• The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

  Vince Cable

  Pain, Long, Degrees

  "The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means".

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• 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

  Couple, People, Statistics

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

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Government, Decision, Finals

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• In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Rewards, Given, Capitalist

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• 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

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

  Robert Ballard

  Mean, Sea, Oil

  "In Digital Age, What's Left For Modern Explorers". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 6, 2011.

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• One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

  John M. McHugh

  Seven, Figures

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• 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

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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• 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

  Years, Justice, Mad

  Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong (2005). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

  J. I. Packer

  Fiction, Christian Christmas, Religious Christmas

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.20, InterVarsity Press

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• Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

  Dave Eggers

  Cute, Scarves, Eccentric

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• 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

  Men, Emotional, Hands

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

  Samantha Power

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  "Message to Graduates: 'Be a Good Ancestor'" by Samantha Power, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2008.

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• Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?

  Mark Batterson

  Pain, Adventure, Ignorance

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• Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Philosophy, Real, Ignorance

  "The Ethics of Ambiguity". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Conclusion, 1947.

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• 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

  Home, Son, Men

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• The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

  Daniel Coyle

  Baby, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.94, Random House

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• I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Falling In Love, Lying

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

  J. I. Packer

  Should, Sinner

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.185, InterVarsity Press

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• There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to work than just a paycheck. This is unfortunately a very common view which I believe accounts in part for the statistic that approximately 70% of people are disengaged at work. Think about the loss of meaning and productivity and the staggering economic implications of that statistic.

  David Kim

  Believe, Home, Loss

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.

  Chris Alexander

  Real, War, Eye

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  World, Individual, Inequality

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

  Joe Hill

  Eye, Heart, Blow

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• Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber.

  Nicholson Baker

  Unique, Leaving, Tears

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