Acutely Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much…
— A. C. Benson
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just…
— Agatha Christie
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset…
— Chris Christie
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
— P.J. O'Rourke
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
— Thomas Reid
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other…
— Elie Wiesel
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
— William E. Simon
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly.…
— Patrick Warburton
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made…
— Walter Lippmann
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything…
— Jean Toomer
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve…
— Yukio Mishima
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity…
— James Payn
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended…
— Freeman Dyson
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
— Tennessee Williams
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by…
— A. N. Wilson
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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose,…
— Paul Muldoon
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Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk…
— Saffron Burrows
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