(57 quotes found)
“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute”
William Lyon Phelps
“Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.”
William E. Simon
“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
“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.”
William Holmes
“The demographic issue is quite acute for Russia.”
Yevgeny Primakov
“As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever.”
County Administrator Richard Wesch
“Our entire crew is acutely aware of the historic nature of being the very last Tomcat squadron.”
Cmdr. Richard LaBranche
“Most of the prescriptions that come in are the acute. Johnny has a cold come down, they can come in and get the prescription and go home. Mail order is not going to bother that.”
Warren Rolen
“Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter improvement, faces acute threats.”
David Frost
