Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Mark McClellan

Adult day care programs (and) assistant programs like that clearly have a big impact. It seems like it would make sense to coordinate those services with acute health care.

Any concession in the acute standoff with the US imperialists invites a ruin. A concession will result in a hundred concessions and finally invite death and national ruin.

That's important because that's what precipitates an acute heart attack or stroke.

They responded inappropriately and very late to the acute problems he was having in the hospital.

There's a big misconception about what school nurses do. You have to handle everything from first aid injuries to chronic or acute mental health problems. In addition to the students, we're also responsible for 250 staff.

A relatively more acute awareness of practical gains and losses, a more worldly mentality and a relatively weaker nationalism are part of Hong Kong culture.

Roald Dahl

I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.

We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in the hospital, so now we need to focus on better understanding the barriers to improved compliance outside of acute medical settings. This will be a much more difficult problem, since it involves so many different factors.

While there are a lot of chemicals in the water, they probably don't rise to the level of an acute toxin. Probably the biggest danger right now is the sewage.

Rodrigo Rato

We see a recovery in Europe, not very acute but a recovery, and we see a more broad-based recovery in Japan.

The results of this QSBO survey suggest the economy is presently in the throes of a potential acute slowdown.

I could not put any weight on my legs at all. I suffered acute pain in the knees and the lower body had stopped functioning.

David Lewis

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

It's being driven by what we call ATP -- acute time poverty. People are busy, they don't always have time to sit down and watch a show when it's scheduled.

Joe Barton

It is unfortunate that it takes a hurricane like Katrina or Rita to show us just how acute the problem is. Now is the time to start to correct this problem and build more refineries in the United States.

It's become more acute in the last couple of years because of the Raptor. We've seen the amount of sonic booms increase dramatically.

IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.

If you saw what I did plus the MRI scan, that's not an acute injury from him just getting back.

Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

Because there is no way to tell (in the short term) whether symptoms are from a TIA or an acute stroke, patients should assume that all stroke-like symptoms signal an emergency and should not wait to see if they go away,

The issue of school overcrowding has been more acute lately. If we don't work out the problem . . . we're going to be forced to shut down all development that is not age-restricted, and that would be a mistake.

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.

Acute events are much more destructive if long-term planning hasn't been done. So it's in our interest to be concerned about controlling infections like TB even outside our own borders.

Acute events are much more destructive if long-term planning hasn't been done, ... So it's in our interest to be concerned about controlling infections like TB even outside our own borders.

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.

Viktor Yushchenko

The team's unity, unfortunately, has become an extremely acute problem. Interpersonal conflicts have begun to affect state affairs, ... It is very difficult, but today I must remove this Gordian knot.

It's a rough time down here. Everybody is having acute stress responses. They're numb, they're crying. But who wouldn't be if you lost your house.

The idea was to kick-start the process, make it sustainable and then re-invest our resources elsewhere. As a private NGO our job is to go in, tackle an acute need and advocate that those properly responsible take over.

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have either import people or export work. The further you project the time horizon, the more inevitable it gets.

The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year,