#staggering

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

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

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

— Thomas Dewey

#deal #death #decision #final #matter

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

#assume #care #charitable #debts #education

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

#back #barack #barack obama #before #could

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

#case #either #i #i think #idea

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

#build #encampment #ever #ground #had

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#education #escaping #greatest #higher #higher education

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

#becoming #child #ending #movie #movie star

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

#capacity #caused #depth #develop #empathize

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

#beneficial #character #concentration #doing #going