Best Gradual Sayings
215 Gradual quotes by 186 unique authors
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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the…
— John Millington Synge
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History is the gradual instant
— Anne Michaels
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Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start…
— George Saunders
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So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy…
— Naomi Klein
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Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve…
— Bill Hybels
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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder…
— Glenn Gould
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence…
— Ernst Mayr
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is…
— Ernst Mayr
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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
— Niklaus Wirth
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to…
— Daniel Tammet
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Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical…
— Niles Eldredge
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And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history…
— Niles Eldredge
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The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
— Giovanni Ruffini
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Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting…
— Marion Ross
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
— Samuel Johnson
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The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human…
— M. King Hubbert
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.…
— Caroline Knapp
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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a…
— Otto Neurath
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
— Craig Newmark
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I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
— Joy Davidman
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As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities…
— Isabella Beeton
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Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
— Gail Jones
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I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any…
— Unknown Author
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Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue,…
— Daniel O'Connell
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