Famous Quotes & Sayings

Secondhand smoke is even worse than we thought. It increases the risk for an acute coronary event like a heart attack or long-term development of atherosclerosis.

Mr (Joseph) Estrada is complaining of fever and night chills and the preliminary diagnosis of the doctor is that he has an acute bronchitis. He's also been complaining of pain in his joints and legs.

Occidental is a real community clinic and a lot of people who come here come from not only the town but from surrounding cities. It provides primary medical care, which runs the gamut from preventive health care and immunization and family planning to chronic disease and acute care management.

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

Shoaib Akhtar

I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain killer injections but it is risky and I have decided to take the rest.

She was cleared medically and told she had a complete recovery from the prior injuries. Based on my assessment, I would have to say it's an acute new injury.

She was in an acute condition when she was admitted on Monday ... she had bird flu symptoms. Her condition continued to deteriorate and at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, she died.

I have been suffering with this condition for much of the season and it has become more acute over the past 10 days. The doctors have informed me that without immediate attention that this condition will only become more serious and permanent. I hate to step away from the team at such a critical juncture of the season, but I believe that I have to take measures now to correct these health issues.

Timothy Geithner

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.

Ian Mcewan

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

Lili Taylor

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

Roman Jakobson

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005, ... The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.

You have the most acute health-care workforce shortage in the country.

N. Scott Momaday

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

What these folks are saying is that if you use this conditioning regimen, you can get very good results and you eliminate or you greatly minimize acute GVHD, ... You keep the good effects while reducing the bad.

Octavian Paler

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Lucius Accius

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

There are visible cases of malnutrition among the new arrivals. A toddler died last week on arrival suffering from dehydration and three young children died in January from acute respiratory infection.

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.

Margaret Thatcher

Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as prime minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously.

I think that the industry's failure to embrace and create a legal form of downloading is contributing to an already acute problem.

There is an acute shortage of product (from refineries) and this is drifting back into the futures market, ... But OPEC is passing the buck for high oil prices, it doesn't want to be held responsible for a possible worldwide recession.

Wen Jiabao

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.

He was a founder of gesture politics with the most acute of eyes for what would now be called the photo opportunity.

There is no acute danger for public health.

Jay Rockefeller

I am saddened to learn of Bob's passing. Bob was an outstanding journalist and an acute political observer.

But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.