Gradually Quotes
699 quotes by 567 authors
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
— John Berger
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I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
— Alain de Botton
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.
— Luke Bryan
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The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way…
— Kirk Cameron
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
— Jackie Chan
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will…
— Meg Whitman
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
— Marcel Proust
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
— Oscar Wilde
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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best…
— Walter Lippmann
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it…
— John Gregory Brown
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he…
— Hermann Kolbe
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at…
— Margaret Halsey
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The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be…
— Anton Webern
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming…
— James Pickles
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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are…
— Elihu Root
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