Definition of Staggering

Staggering

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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

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

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

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

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor

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.
Michael Reagan

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.
Bruce Wasserstein

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

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

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
John Gardner

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