Gradually Quotes

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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing. — Park Chan-wook
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. — Emily Dickinson
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… — Vaclav Havel
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions… — Tom Hodgkinson
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. — Khaled Hosseini
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady… — Washington Irving
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. — John F. Kennedy
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of… — Jonathan Lethem
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. — Shigeru Miyamoto
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so… — Jeanne Moreau
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And… — John Newcombe
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live. — Henri Nouwen
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again. — John O'Donohue
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. — Camille Paglia
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest… — Michael Palin
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die… — Max Planck
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. — Elvis Presley
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. — Marcel Proust
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will… — Herbert Read

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