Acute Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (A) Quotes

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

- Leonard Cohen

The weird thing about this business - and I`m sure this operates in many other things, but it`s very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don`t realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

- Lili Taylor

I`d be dead without my sense of humor. I can`t imagine processing the shit we are slogging our way through in life without it. In a twenty-four-hour space, you get an acute sense of how all of this injustice and out-rage is absurd. There are things that are truly serious, like when one loses his health or gets into a life- threatening accident. But the rest of it.... If you can`t laugh your way through life, then you are fucked. Humor was the first form of armor I ever wore to counteract my self-image. The first girl I ever asked out on a date laughed at me, because she thought I was kidding. While I didn`t cry on the surface, inside I was weeping. But outwardly I made a joke out of the situation. So humor has always been my shield against the slings and arrows. I turn them into something satiric.

- Ron Perlman

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 patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

- Robert A. Heinlein

(on making The Devils (1971)) It was a difficult and tiring role. I don`t think anyone in their right mind would say that they had fun shooting that film. It wasn`t created with the intent of having fun or being pleasurable; on the contrary, it was analyzed acutely and made with extreme seriousness. It was definitely a film about a certain society and the things that society did. We tried to show that humans are diabolical or can be as diabolical as in the film. I didn`t have fun, it was four months of hard work and if anyone has the courage or the desire to sit his ass down on a firecracker and scream for four months with Ken Russell yelling in your ears, well . . .

- Oliver Reed

It is an excellent treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and has dramatically improved the cure rate and survival rate for patients with this disease. It also appears to prevent recurrence of head and neck cancer in those patients that have been treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy,

- Gary Lewis

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 what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

- Alex Lifeson

It`s an acute emergency, so I`d be surprised if anyone was against it.

- David Lewis

He was a founder of gesture politics with the most acute of eyes for what would now be called the photo opportunity.

- John Hudson

What`s most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation`s Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

- David Archer

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We`d meet, they`d come and seek me out, we`d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

- Wole Soyinka

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

- Jay London

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 because of chemical exposure in World War I.

- Alan Kearney

I think that the industry`s failure to embrace and create a legal form of downloading is contributing to an already acute problem.

- Alan Woody

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

- Albert Pang

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning`s letters.

- Alex Kindler

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don`t wake up with it.

- Alex Nogales

I view energy as the lifeblood of world economic activity. And as a result, the energy industry has a profile that is particularly acute.

- Allison Krauss

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

- Amanda Wood

People think we`re a nursing home. They think we are a hospice. In real basic terms, we`re the piece that happens after acute care. We work with people who are severely ill or have a multiplicity of things going on and they just need a little more direct care.

- Anthony Gikas

This tragic event has impacted thousands of lives in the Gulf Coast region, and perhaps dozens of our member colleges and universities have suffered extensive physical damage to facilities ... (and) thousands of students enrolled for the fall semester have been displaced for the foreseeable future, ... We have already been in touch with federal policy-makers to ensure that they are aware of the acute needs of colleges and universities in the region, and have identified policy changes that may be needed to help students and institutions cope with this unprecedented disaster.

- Anthony Stasio

I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain killer injections but it is risky and I have decided to take the rest.

- Barbara Dooley

T here`s an acute shortage of pharmacists. Some people say as many as 12,000 open positions remain unfilled today. W henever there`s been a labor shortage in the history of this country, automation has stepped up to fill the gap.

- Barry Blauvelt

The next three years will be decisive for us, ... If we don`t succeed in the next three years, there`ll be an acute crisis at Volkswagen.

- Barry Colvin

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed

- Johann Kaspar Lavater