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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. -- Thomas Sydenham
He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis". -- Avril Lavigne
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 Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma. -- Ralph W. Moss
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet. -- Olivia Thirlby
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. -- Arthur Balfour
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. -- William Lyon Phelps
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. -- Geoff Mulgan
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
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
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 their literature. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 to blossom. -- Yoko Ono
My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways. -- Gary Lineker
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. -- Lewis Cass
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 ideas to reveal something new. -- Jason Silva
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful. -- Alan Alda
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. It is thus with all guilt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Christopher Shays
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
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 more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
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
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. -- Lydia M. Child
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
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 bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans. -- Jerry Lewis
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 course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. -- Jerry Saltz
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
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, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. -- Aristotle
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. -- Isabel Allende
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. -- William Ernest Henley
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one. -- Teju Cole
Always avoid the acute angle. -- Dale Carnegie
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. -- Terry Pratchett
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. -- Hermann Hesse
There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression. -- Harold Pinter
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. -- Gary Zukav
To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute -- Paul Merson
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. -- Johann Caspar Lavater
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. -- George Pope Morris
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. -- Donna J. Haraway
Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something. -- Robin Sharma
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. -- Andrew Solomon
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. -- Jonathan Raban
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. -- Oliver Sacks
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. -- Justin Welby
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. -- Evelyn Waugh
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. -- Gerald R. Ford
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. -- Robert Reich
I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three. -- Chris Martin
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. -- Jud Tylor
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. -- Peter L. Berger
I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier") -- Bernard Capes
The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning. -- Henry Lindlahr
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop. -- Michael Oxley
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. -- Bruce Catton
... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm. -- John E. Sarno
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? -- Jay London
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. -- Winston Churchill
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. -- Will Cuppy
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly. -- Boris Spassky
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute. -- Edmund Phelps
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. -- Eudora Welty
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. -- Walter Scott
In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute. -- Manmohan Singh
To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? -- Robert Frost
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâ??one that everything afterward savors of antiâ??climax. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue. -- Peter Kinderman
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. -- George Weinberg
This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master. -- V.S. Carnes
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair. -- Holly Black
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. -- George Will
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. -- Fareed Zakaria
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 find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time. -- Isabel Allende
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. -- Sun Tzu
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source. -- Phyllis Bottome
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress. -- Warren Buffett
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. -- Samuel Johnson
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force. -- Carlo Carra
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
You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much. -- Tanc Sade
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. -- Baruch Spinoza
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain. -- Hippocrates
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. -- George Meredith
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. -- Edward Hoagland
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. -- Marcel Proust
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. -- Ian Mcewan
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 finger of Adam in Michelangelo. -- Wassily Kandinsky
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 a possession of the race. -- Alexander Smith
It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils. -- Peter Matthiessen
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 confess themcannot but deny them passionately. -- George Bernard Shaw
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. -- Wallace Stevens
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld! -- Ouida
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance. -- Elliot W. Eisner
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 all their external senses are remarkably acute. -- Samuel George Morton
Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research. -- Volkmar Sigusch
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. -- Jane Campion
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 thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. -- Roman Jakobson
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 make that particular sense more active and more acute. -- 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 being reminded of what a great artist noticed there. -- Alain de Botton
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. -- Vandana Shiva
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture. -- Kenny Smith
When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing. -- Barbara Woodhouse
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care. -- Joel Fuhrman

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