Quotes with gradually

  • When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
  • The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
  • Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

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  • Vaclav Havel 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 significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Tacitus Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Carol P. Christ After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bertrand Russell Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
    The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Machiavelli Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Elvis Presley Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Camilla Belle For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and 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 all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Bill Gross Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Ralph Ransom Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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