Quotes About Gradual

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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I'm a slow starter.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I take things one step at a time.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

All abiding good comes, as it has been well said, by evolution not by revolution…

Things won't change much and things won't change fast.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Or I either," said St. Clare. "The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers,—such cases as Prue's, for example,—what do they come from? In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides,—the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I didn't know, I didn't foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

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.

Will you tell me how long you have loved him? It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.

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

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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.

One] of the fundamental principles of statesmanship: to persuade radicals that change must be gradual in order to be permanent, and to persuade conservatives that change must be.