Staggering Quotes - page 3

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure. (John M. McHugh)
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. View quote
Michael Reagan
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. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. View quote
Robert Ballard
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals. View quote
Steven Bochco
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. View quote
Samuel West
Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary. View quote
Ted Strickland
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. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
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. View quote
Frederick Buechner
The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Our growth rate continues to be staggering. (Jimmy Wales)
I love Wisconsin, I love coming here. I've performed here a lot because I've discovered that you people apparently have some sort of federal grant for drinking. [audience cheers] It's–you're insane! You pay less for liquor than anybody I know anywhere in the country. Nobody pays any less for liquor than you. What're you–what're you–HOW?! I don't know if you're using that farm subsidy money, or if you're just hijacking liquor trucks, but this is fucking insane. [audience member shouts something] Is it volume? It's unbe–fucking–lievable, it's staggering! I come here because basically if I spend four days here drinking, and even with the plane ticket, it's cheaper than drinking in New York. How do you know when it's New Year's? That's the big mystery to me. What's the difference? I've been in bars here and it's like New Year's every fucking night! "Uh, New Year's, that's when we–we drink with hats on." View quote
Lewis Black
Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way..." (Jace) View quote
Cassandra Clare
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information - that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
And Poverty, an unsightly plague that leads men to crime; Error, with staggering gait, and Discord that delights to confound sea with sky. View quote
Silius Italicus
There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
The death of children by starvation in our valleys is simply staggering. ... I'll do what I can. ... Funny how mean and little books become in the face of such tragedies. View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
Stephen King
To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering. View quote
Kathy Griffin
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
I do not wish to begin by "taking sides”; nor indeed to end by "taking sides.” I am sick of "sides”; which is to say, I am sick of war; of wars hot and cold; and all their approximations and metaphors and deceits and ideological ruses. I am sick of the betrayal of the mind and the failure of compassion and the neglect of the poor. I am sick of foreign ministers and all their works and pomps. I am sick of torture and secret police and the apparatus of fascists and the rhetoric of leftists. Like Lazarus, staggering from his grave, or the ghost of Trotsky I can only groan: "We have had enough of that, we have been through all that.”. View quote
Daniel Berrigan
This market speaking life when heard from each person is now making staggering confused noise of all people speaking together. View quote
Suman Pokhrel
These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line. Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Neither the Protestant church nor Anglo-American law was equipped to cope with the staggering problem of the status of the Negro: forced to choose between regarding him as a moral human being and as property, they chose the definition of property. The result was the utter degradation of a people. It was an oppression unparalled in human history. This is the problem we are faced with today: too many white Americans still deny the Negro his position as a moral human being. View quote
William Styron