Acutely Quotes

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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
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
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
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? — P.J. O'Rourke
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. — Thomas Reid
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
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. — William E. Simon
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
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
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
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
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
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
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams
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
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes
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
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
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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