#acute

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#acutely #alive #been #certainly #grand

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. ↗

— Chris Christie

#acutely #attorney #concerns #day #extremists

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

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. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#am #ask #aware #ballots #confirm

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

#america #crisis #feeling #interested #long-term

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#additional #always #audience #aware #brain