Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

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.

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.

Roman Jakobson

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.

David Frost

Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter improvement, faces acute threats.

James Rothman

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

Kathleen Sebelius

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

It doesn't take much to cause big effects. If you already have compromised coronary circulation and go into a smoky environment, there is a substantial increase in your risk of an acute event.

Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.

You have the most acute health-care workforce shortage in the country.

Based on recent literature, freeze, flight, fight, fright, faint provides a more complete description of the human acute stress response sequence than current descriptions.

Shoaib Akhtar

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.

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

Margaret Thatcher

Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously.

There is no acute danger for public health.

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

John Updike

He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.

I have been suffering with this condition for much of the season and it has become more acute over the past 10 days. The doctors have informed me that without immediate attention that this condition will only become more serious and permanent. I hate to step away from the team at such a critical juncture of the season, but I believe that I have to take measures now to correct these health issues.

What these folks are saying is that if you use this conditioning regimen, you can get very good results and you eliminate or you greatly minimize acute GVHD, ... You keep the good effects while reducing the bad.

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.

Octavian Paler

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Lucius Accius

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

There are visible cases of malnutrition among the new arrivals. A toddler died last week on arrival suffering from dehydration and three young children died in January from acute respiratory infection.

N. Scott Momaday

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

Timothy Geithner

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

Yevgeny Primakov

The demographic issue is quite acute for Russia.

Lili Taylor

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.

Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005, ... The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.

Edward Hirsch

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

Someone like Landseer, for example, painted (animals) like they were human, which is why we can relate to them. Landseer combines an acute observation of animal behavior with qualities more human in nature.

Gary Lewis

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,

I think we need more acute care. What if you're too sick to be transferred to San Antonio?

It is nothing short of a scandal that at a time of acute housing need not a single new social dwelling was started to be built in 116 English councils.