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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true. -- J. I. Packer
One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure. -- John M. McHugh
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. -- Henry Petroski
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
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
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
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
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
A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering. -- Jim Rohn
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
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. -- Margaret Drabble
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
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. -- Chris Van Hollen
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. -- Tom Rath
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering. -- Kathy Griffin
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. -- Jessica Capshaw
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. -- John W. Gardner
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. -- Simon Sinek
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone. -- Kevin Barry
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day. -- Melina Kanakaredes
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
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
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
We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment. -- Zac Goldsmith
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. -- Ted Strickland
When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months. -- Michael Moss
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering. -- Erin Gruwell
Our growth rate continues to be staggering. -- Jimmy Wales
The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering. -- Winnie Byanyima
The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. -- Helen Beardsley
Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences. -- Priscilla Shirer
Every lateness give us a staggering statistics in negative economic effect -- Sunday Adelaja
I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it. -- Donald Miller
Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering. -- Winona Ryder
Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass. -- Katherine Dunn
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. -- Jojo Moyes
It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. -- Gunter Grass
Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time. -- Robin Sharma
For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering. -- Fred Krupp
Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. -- Mercedes McCambridge
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices. -- James C. Collins
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.' -- Tim Jackson
That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly. -- Joanna Lumley
Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. -- Michael Moss
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell. -- Tahereh Mafi
The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable. -- David Knopfler
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. -- Nelson Mandela
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? -- Robert Motherwell
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
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. -- Richard Paul Evans
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
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good GÃ¶ttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day. -- Melina Kanakaredes
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel -- Robert Anton Wilson
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
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else -- Robert Lucas, Jr.
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
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
Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved -- Kate Mullane Robertson
Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved... -- Kate Mullane Robertson
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
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
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. -- Steven Bochco
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
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
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
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering. -- Joseph Heller

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