Acute Quotes

Always avoid the acute angle.

— Dale Carnegie

“No one else’s suffering is ever as acute as your own,”

— Brian McClellan

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

— Arthur Balfour

“In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.”

— Hippocrates

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

— Harold Pinter

I have an immunodeficiency and I also have acute chronic bronchitis.

— George Santos

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.

— Robert Reich

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

— Thomas Sydenham

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

— Jud Tylor

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

— Justin Welby

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

— Hermann Hesse

The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly…

— Scott Stossel

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between…

— Jason Silva

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad…

— Christopher Shays

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed…

— Roman Jakobson

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the…

— Ian Mcewan

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever…

— Kathleen Sebelius

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and…

— N. Scott Momaday

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute…

— Lili Taylor

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.…

— Teju Cole

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some…

— Aristotle

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of…

— Anonymous

The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has…

— Tim Birkhead

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to…

— Ani DiFranco

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages,…

— Isabel Allende

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression…

— Octavian Paler

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted…

— James Rothman

“I have acute pancreatitis." "I thought it was just average looking.”

— Melissa Bank

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

— Samin Nosrat

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom…

— Lewis Cass

“She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all…

— Martin Amis

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz