Acute Quotes

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. - Florence Nightingale

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

We've been monitoring. All persons showing high temperature and strange progress of acute respiratory illnesses are examined for possible detection of the bird flu virus, especially if the patient had contact with domestic birds. - Gennady Onishchenko

We're turning into the most acute period of what I would call the 'early warning season' for the next quarterly earnings announcements. - Peter Chandler

We're talking about the first time, hopefully, that we would have a strategic plan for California's future. So often government is an esoteric concept for people, but here and now there is an acute connection between the people and deciding the services government should provide. - Margita Thompson

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

We need replication in other studies but, if it is verified, it means there would be another approach to conditioning a patient that would greatly minimize acute GVHD but lead to the same beneficial effects. - Marshall Lichtman

We need a more comprehensive and perhaps more effective strategy in controlling acute respiratory infections, relying on several preventive interventions that take into account the multi-agent nature of infectious respiratory disease and its context (such as personal hygiene, provision of electricity and adequate food, water and sanitation). - Tom Jefferson

We must have an advance warning and crisis management system on urban violence that is as effective as the one against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. - Wen Jiabao

We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed, and we could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation. - Jan Egeland