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No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain fever. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover — William Blake

Suddenly, I developed an acute case of Tourette's syndrome, Fuck! That fucking-shit-son-of-an-ass-monkey-dick-weasel! — Christine Zolendz

I could not excuse a man's having more music than love - more ear than eye - a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. — Jane Austen

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

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. — Geoff Mulgan

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. — Will Cuppy

Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself in acute depression. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semi-colon. (the author is actually quoting a friend here) — Mary Norris

There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment. — John Green

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 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

He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity. — Henrik Ibsen

Someone who was experiencing a break-up was the same as that of someone undergoing acute physical pain. — Preeti Shenoy

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring — Adam Phillips

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. — Winston Churchill

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

All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure. — Alastair Reynolds

I have acute pancreatitis."
"I thought it was just average looking. — Melissa Bank

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

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

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. — Robert Reich

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. — Gary Zukav

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three. — Chris Martin

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. — Jud Tylor

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. — Hermann Hesse

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue. — Peter Kinderman

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. — Martin Amis

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. — William Lyon Phelps

stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression. — Tad Williams

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. — Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. — Terry Pratchett

There's nothing wrong with me ... except acute chronic fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton

...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority. — J.D. Vance

The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning. — Henry Lindlahr

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

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught. — Frances Hardinge

We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone. — Sandra Lee Dennis

I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my grandfather's] optimism. — Tea Obreht

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

Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always hungry — Stephen King

You are quite acute for a mental stillborn — Dan Simmons

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. — Thomas Jefferson

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

The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most. — Michel De Montaigne

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day. — Heidi Pitlor

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now — George Orwell

This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like. — Kendare Blake

I love my job, and I hope people find comfort in knowing there are still people out there who love what they do. - a New York acute care nurse — Alexandra Robbins

Always avoid the acute angle. — Dale Carnegie

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression. — Harold Pinter

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. — Johann Caspar Lavater

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks

To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute — Paul Merson

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. — James Herriot

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master. — V.S. Carnes

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway

It is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm. — John E. Sarno

I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer. — Agatha Christie

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. — Walter Scott

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. — Justin Welby

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

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. — George Weinberg

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry. — Jo Nesbo

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon

I do not think Sirius ever saw Kreacher as a being with feelings as acute as a human's. . . . — J.K. Rowling

Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance! — Charles Dickens

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute. — Edmund Phelps

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. — Nathan Wolfe

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns. — Richelle E. Goodrich

the man of acute consciousness, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Everyday experiences, like the weather, or an acute injury, simply WERE — Anonymous

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery. — Hippocrates

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

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

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. — George Pope Morris

Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered. — A.G. Howard

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

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute. — Martin Edwards

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. — Gerald R. Ford

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes

It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like. — Don DeLillo

It was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion. — William Faulkner

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

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. — Evelyn Waugh

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something. — Robin Sharma