#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

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#capitalist #capitalist society #create #eisner #given

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

#attempt #billion #evolved #fact #i

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

#been #billion #company #competitive #cost

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

#common #couples #fertility #i #just

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

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#case #either #i #i think #sometimes

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#health #health insurance #insurance #lives #seven

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

#apartment #chic #disgusting #i #like

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