Acutest Quotes

#1. Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

Wallace Stevens

#2. Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails.

Girdhar Joshi

#3. We bring these delightful creatures into the world - eagerly, happily - and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation - but entirely of our own making.

Whit Stillman

#4. Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Charles Darwin

#6. The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;

Wilkie Collins

#7. I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

Li Qingzhao

#9. I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

Jim Butcher

#10. I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Glenda Millard

#11. Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

Gary Johnson

#12. If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Oscar Wilde

#13. We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.

Juliet Marillier

#14. If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Abraham Maslow

#15. Without money honor is merely a disease.

Jean Racine

#16. I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Jon Runyan

#17. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.

Donna Guillemette

#18. Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle