40 Staggering Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Truth Few Fragment Complete Scale Small Small Scale Instant Developments Mosaic Like Most Very Laborious Human Human Beings Staggering Them Acquire Successive Who Beings Illumination Receive

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

Alone Sometimes Space Think Universe Case Idea Quite Staggering Either

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. Jessica Capshaw

Health Woman World Challenge Every Complications Minute Remains Developing Developing World Particularly Globally Maternal Maternal Health Childbirth Dies Staggering

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

Education War Care Responsibility National Young Assume Sick Responsibilities Charitable Failing Repair Repayment Debts America Staggering Infrastructure Poor

The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency. Greg Grandin

CIA Book People World Year Added Presidency Says About Colombia Fact Since New Been Clinton Up Staggering Plan Bill Bill Clinton Displaced Each Each Year Million Million People

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

Life Justice Words Nothing Universe Mad Out Evolved Would Would-Be Some Fact Attempt Years Literally After Staggering Billion Nearly

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering. Alec Berg

Money Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Staggering Amount

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

Change Seen Year Spent Dime More Recovery Recovery Act Driving How Than Reform Decades Staggering Act Last Last Year

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

Problems Build Military Logistical Had Knows Occupations Up Anyone Staggering Ground Who Village Ever Pose Set

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. Chris Van Hollen

Education Higher Education Poverty Cost Higher Obstacles Greatest Escaping Staggering

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. Dabney Coleman

Character You Yourself Relax Think Beneficial Say Scene Concentration Talking Am Doing Lines Itself Very Going Staggering Your

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

War Others Our Scale Strive Must Rather Misery Develop Empathize Feel Caused Than Staggering Capacity Depth Turning Away Sufferings

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue. David Hepworth

Food Great Society Immigrants Rural Unbelievable Variety Emily Emily Dickinson Kitchen Through Rituals Idaho Ball Cuisine Sisters Via Staggering Barbecue

George H.W. Bush had perhaps the greatest resume in American history. Director of the CIA, ambassador to the U.N., envoy to China, vice president of the United States and then, of course, president. It's staggering to contemplate one person achieving so much. Jim Nantz

History Director CIA Resume President States Had Contemplate Perhaps Course Greatest George Ambassador Person American Achieving Vice Vice President Staggering American History China Bush Then Much United United States

Our growth rate continues to be staggering. Jimmy Wales

Our Rate Staggering Growth Growth Rate

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. Jojo Moyes

Women Kicking Alive May Fiction Staggering Heels

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering. Kathy Griffin

Comedy Job Living Give Make Doing Up Staggering Actually

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. Marcus Brigstocke

Money Comedy Think Intimate Top Out Kind More Like Because Making Comics Lot End Selling Than Discussion Microphone Maybe Stadiums Staggering Thing Amount

'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap. Mary H.K. Choi

Staggering Avatar Speaking

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating. Meghan Markle

Mom Black Half White Equal Parts Caucasian Line American African Being African-American Staggering Blurred Paints Dad Illuminating

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. Mercedes McCambridge

Woman Sick Like Chic Disgusting Staggering Apartment Many Utterly

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

Me Problems Salt Months Hooked Stay Miracle Totally Foods Also Industry Shelves Itself Staggering Burst Flavor Ingredient Really Serve

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