Quotes About Gradually

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.

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

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

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

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.

Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

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

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

In either case, you are not doing the job of reading that the book requires. That is done in only one way. Without external help of any sort, you go to work on the book. With nothing but the power of your own mind, you operate on the symbols before you in such a way that you gradually lift yourself from a state of understanding less to one of understanding more.

Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation.

Oh what a mad business, no good can come of it, only chaos, and not just chaos but evil. How did we gradually get entangled in such a terribly dangerous shambles!

I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.

and gradually his face took on an expression of grudging pudding contentment.

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

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

Patched-together or hard-won coverings of positivity flew away with ridiculous suddenness, like hats, or else gradually and unceremoniously, over days, like paint.

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

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

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

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to take on added beauty and refinement. Gradually, you will begin to reflect someone the glory and beauty and majesty of your companions.

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.

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.

Gradually the looting stopped - there was nothing left to take - and the drinking began in earnest. Several huge vats were wheeled into the square and jugs passed from man to man…and then they turned their attention to us.