Acute Quotes

154 quotes by 143 authors

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and… — Samuel George Morton
Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute… — Ralph W. Moss
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is… — Henry Moore
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without… — Alain de Botton
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the… — Wassily Kandinsky
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. — Gerald R. Ford
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to… — George Orwell
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility… — Henry Adams
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon… — N. T. Wright
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the… — Robert A. Heinlein
If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a… — Jerry Lewis
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to… — Alex Lifeson
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start… — Yoko Ono
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains… — Alexander Smith

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