Quotes about Gradually

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. Votes: 3

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. Votes: 3

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Votes: 3

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. Votes: 3

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. Votes: 3

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. Votes: 3

the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. Votes: 3

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. Votes: 3

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. Votes: 3

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. Votes: 3

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. Votes: 3

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws. Votes: 3

If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy Votes: 3

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. Votes: 3

Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it. Votes: 3

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York. Votes: 3

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. Votes: 3

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. Votes: 3

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing. Votes: 3

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life. Votes: 3

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine. Votes: 3

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?' Votes: 3

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'" Votes: 3

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but through every human heart Votes: 3

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. Votes: 3

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation. Votes: 3

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 sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations. Votes: 3

The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us. Votes: 3

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies. Votes: 3

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way. Votes: 3

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent. Votes: 3

The real miracle is a man who can walk with God every day ... When a person walks with God, he finds joy in the everyday things he does. Gradually his life begins to expand. Votes: 3

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. Votes: 3

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. Votes: 3

Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul. Votes: 3

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get. Votes: 3

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Votes: 2

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Votes: 2

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. Votes: 2

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. Votes: 2

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. Votes: 2

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. Votes: 2

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Votes: 2

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. Votes: 2

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Votes: 2

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. Votes: 2

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. Votes: 2

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. Votes: 2

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. Votes: 2

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. Votes: 2

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. Votes: 2

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. Votes: 2

The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different. Votes: 2

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 I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. Votes: 2

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family. Votes: 2

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. Votes: 2

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. Votes: 2

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable. Votes: 0

I have gradually confused photography with life. Votes: 0

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy. Votes: 0

China and India's relationship is gradually developing. Votes: 0

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized. Votes: 0

spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually ... Votes: 0

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. Votes: 0

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. Votes: 0

The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises. Votes: 0

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. Votes: 0

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. Votes: 0

My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me. Votes: 0

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief Votes: 0

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. Votes: 0

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated. Votes: 0

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Votes: 0

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger. Votes: 0

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology. Votes: 0

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me. Votes: 0

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually. Votes: 0

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish. Votes: 0

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. Votes: 0

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Votes: 0

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. Votes: 0

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. Votes: 0

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. Votes: 0

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. Votes: 0

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually. Votes: 0

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. Votes: 0

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. Votes: 0

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually. Votes: 0

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. Votes: 0

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. Votes: 0

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am. Votes: 0

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky. Votes: 0

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. Votes: 0

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually. Votes: 0

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own. Votes: 0

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path. Votes: 0

Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Votes: 0

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid. Votes: 0

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually. Votes: 0

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. Votes: 0

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too. Votes: 0

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension. Votes: 0

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected. Votes: 0

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. Votes: 0

It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop. Votes: 0

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down. Votes: 0

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually. Votes: 0

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you Votes: 0

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually. Votes: 0

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. Votes: 0

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. Votes: 0

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages. Votes: 0

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else. Votes: 0

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. Votes: 0

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more. Votes: 0

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach. Votes: 0

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together. Votes: 0

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death. Votes: 0

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. Votes: 0

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Votes: 0

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. Votes: 0

Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness. Votes: 0

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. Votes: 0

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. Votes: 0

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. Votes: 0

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. Votes: 0

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear. Votes: 0

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time. Votes: 0

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. Votes: 0

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound. Votes: 0

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually. Votes: 0

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal. Votes: 0

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. Votes: 0

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm. Votes: 0

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. Votes: 0

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. Votes: 0

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually. Votes: 0

Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger. Votes: 0

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. Votes: 0

Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates. Votes: 0

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. Votes: 0

There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. Votes: 0

If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand. Votes: 0

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. Votes: 0

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared. Votes: 0

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent. Votes: 0

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. Votes: 0

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. Votes: 0

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man. Votes: 0

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. Votes: 0

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it. Votes: 0

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Votes: 0

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools. Votes: 0

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. Votes: 0

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself. Votes: 0

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research. Votes: 0

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do. Votes: 0

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked. Votes: 0

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. Votes: 0

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! Votes: 0

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter Votes: 0

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. Votes: 0

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. Votes: 0

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Votes: 0

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. Votes: 0

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. Votes: 0

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. Votes: 0

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more. Votes: 0

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you. Votes: 0

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one. Votes: 0

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. Votes: 0

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing. Votes: 0

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape. Votes: 0

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore. Votes: 0

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans. Votes: 0

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off. Votes: 0

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. Votes: 0

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build? Votes: 0

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually. Votes: 0

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God. Votes: 0

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul Votes: 0

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. Votes: 0

Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in! Votes: 0

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products Votes: 0

The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. Votes: 0

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental. Votes: 0

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. Votes: 0

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it. Votes: 0

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you. Votes: 0

Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds. Votes: 0

It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened Votes: 0

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again. Votes: 0

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. Votes: 0

The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. Votes: 0

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. Votes: 0

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. Votes: 0

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still. Votes: 0

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. Votes: 0

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet. Votes: 0

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors. Votes: 0

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. Votes: 0

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live. Votes: 0

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse. Votes: 0

Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose. Votes: 0

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality. Votes: 0

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Votes: 0

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. Votes: 0

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.... Votes: 0

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty. Votes: 0

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. Votes: 0

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Votes: 0

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. Votes: 0

Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is. Votes: 0

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately. Votes: 0

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect. Votes: 0

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. Votes: 0

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall. Votes: 0

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Votes: 0

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed. Votes: 0

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace. Votes: 0

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt. Votes: 0

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us Votes: 0

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase. Votes: 0

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 out. Votes: 0

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. Votes: 0

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself. Votes: 0

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. Votes: 0

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it. Votes: 0

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century. Votes: 0

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power. Votes: 0

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven. Votes: 0

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about. Votes: 0

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. Votes: 0

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 luster. Votes: 0

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism . Votes: 0

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved. Votes: 0

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. Votes: 0

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say. Votes: 0

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. Votes: 0

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. Votes: 0

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person. Votes: 0

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom. Votes: 0

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls. Votes: 0

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. Votes: 0

I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process. Votes: 0

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. Votes: 0

In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic. Votes: 0

Tralec inserted his thumb into her womanhood and began to massage her clit with his middle finger, encircling it slowly and gradually increasing the pressure and speed." Votes: 0

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. Votes: 0

Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. Votes: 0

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. Votes: 0

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. Votes: 0

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die Votes: 0

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life. Votes: 0

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain. Votes: 0

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. Votes: 0

What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad? Votes: 0

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. Votes: 0

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled. Votes: 0

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level. Votes: 0

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. Votes: 0

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. Votes: 0

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. Votes: 0

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously. Votes: 0

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity. Votes: 0

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be. Votes: 0

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared. Votes: 0

His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive. Votes: 0

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump needs to set a direction that allows people who are deeply opposed to Obamacare to realize it's gradually going to be reformed and rethought. Votes: 0

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them. Votes: 0

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing. Votes: 0

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music. Votes: 0

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid Votes: 0

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference. Votes: 0

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself"”and keep it there. Votes: 0

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. Votes: 0

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. Votes: 0

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. Votes: 0

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work. Votes: 0

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive. Votes: 0

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. Votes: 0

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night... Votes: 0

It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom. Votes: 0

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. Votes: 0

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon. Votes: 0

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. Votes: 0

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact. Votes: 0

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series. Votes: 0

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few. Votes: 0

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth. Votes: 0

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption. Votes: 0

If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Votes: 0

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. Votes: 0

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress. Votes: 0

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. Votes: 0

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley. Votes: 0

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home... Votes: 0

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists. Votes: 0

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. Votes: 0

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. Votes: 0

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. Votes: 0

True change doesn't happen overnight; it has to happen gradually. You first have to have a change of heart, then a change of mind, and then your actions will follow. Votes: 0

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear. Votes: 0

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. Votes: 0

Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour. Votes: 0

It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else. Votes: 0

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear. Votes: 0

It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. Votes: 0

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely. Votes: 0

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. Votes: 0

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education. Votes: 0

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. Votes: 0

If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained. Votes: 0

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in. Votes: 0

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems. Votes: 0

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it. Votes: 0

A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place. Votes: 0

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. Votes: 0

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see. Votes: 0

If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in. Votes: 0

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 gradually revert to the old one. Votes: 0

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually. Votes: 0

Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible. Votes: 0

Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding. Votes: 0

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any. Votes: 0

Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special Votes: 0

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. Votes: 0

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away. Votes: 0

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way. Votes: 0

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually. Votes: 0

Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating. Votes: 0

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic. Votes: 0

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. Votes: 0

Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love. Votes: 0

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on. Votes: 0

In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind. Votes: 0

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. Votes: 0

Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding. Votes: 0

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic. Votes: 0

In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form. Votes: 0

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 in the length of the working week. Votes: 0

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer. Votes: 0

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. Votes: 0

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness. Votes: 0

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. Votes: 0

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. Votes: 0

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years. Votes: 0

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service. Votes: 0

You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed. Votes: 0

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. Votes: 0

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight. Votes: 0

You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed. Votes: 0

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. Votes: 0

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. Votes: 0

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Votes: 0

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power. Votes: 0

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it. Votes: 0

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Votes: 0

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. Votes: 0

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled. Votes: 0

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. Votes: 0

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. Votes: 0

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door. Votes: 0

As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you'll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself. Votes: 0

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher. Votes: 0

It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing. Votes: 0

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! Votes: 0

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines. Votes: 0

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems. Votes: 0

Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers. Votes: 0

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening. Votes: 0

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. Votes: 0

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 be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce. Votes: 0

When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13 Votes: 0

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss. Votes: 0

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 heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane. Votes: 0

When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content. Votes: 0

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming. Votes: 0

The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up. Votes: 0

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands. Votes: 0

A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth. Votes: 0

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Votes: 0

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief. Votes: 0

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free Votes: 0

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way. Votes: 0

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic. Votes: 0

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped. Votes: 0

Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind. Votes: 0

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 much interested in my character as the film itself. Votes: 0

Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being. Votes: 0

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck. Votes: 0

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned. Votes: 0

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together. Votes: 0

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. Votes: 0

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books. Votes: 0

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this. Votes: 0

Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon. Votes: 0

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. Votes: 0

Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life. Votes: 0

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play. Votes: 0

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. Votes: 0

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. Votes: 0

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work. Votes: 0

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. Votes: 0

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden. Votes: 0

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually. Votes: 0

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 out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up. Votes: 0

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper. Votes: 0

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away! Votes: 0

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. Votes: 0

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. Votes: 0

Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic. Votes: 0