Gradations Quotes

23 Gradations quotes by 20 unique authors

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest… — Samuel Johnson
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. — Arthur Koestler
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals… — Emma Goldman
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to… — Charles Darwin
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones. — Anabel Jensen
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That… — Lionel Trilling
There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are… — Frederick Lenz
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine… — Charles Darwin
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the… — Stan Brakhage
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones… — Anne Carson
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. — Robert Genn
The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart. — Frederick Lenz
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having… — William Hazlitt
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. — Franz Kafka
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the… — Alison Bechdel
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,… — Anais Nin
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art. — Julianne Moore
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young,… — John Saxon
The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves hold prayers and proofs: Above, Chaldean constellations Sparkle over crowded roofs. — Philip Larkin

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