Acute Quotes

154 quotes by 143 authors

I thought, â€œI want to die. I want to die more than ever before. Thereâ€™s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort… — Osamu Dazai
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin
But day after day of depression, the kind that doesnâ€™t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first;… — Nikolai Gogol
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Always avoid the acute angle. — Dale Carnegie
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharingâ€”of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes oneâ€™s soul a reflection… — R A Salvatore
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
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 might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering… — James Rothman
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. — Jean Hanff Korelitz
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or… — Jason Silva
We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible. — Kathleen Sebelius
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting,… — Aristotle
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died… — Christopher Shays
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are… — Giraldus Cambrensis
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of… — Roman Jakobson

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