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Quotes About Smoothly

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.
~ Robert Bloch
Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.
~ Geoffrey Wood
I OF THE HURRICANE is charming! Reads smoothly and the dog lover in me is hooked. The surprises keep coming, right to the very last page. Readers will enjoy spending time with Hurricane.
~ Amy Hest
Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
~ Quentin Blake
The fact is that Legalman's financial survival depends upon his ability to kill deals, and the creatures who spawn those deals are more often than not salesmen, businessmen, and entrepreneurs. Where Legalman is concerned, we're talking about a literal life-or-death matter here. After all, if every deal closed smoothly, he could become an endangered species.
~ Robert J. Ringer
Family life could never be made to run smoothly. At least in the lab the variables had a comforting predictability and problems lent themselves to the scientific method.
~ Robin Cook
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that it can take place smoothly and that legal continuity, which is essential for businesses, is maintained. There is not a single MP who does not agree that getting the bill on the statute book is essential for us all.
~ Dominic Grieve
Considering that the whole point of Consilience is for things to run smoothly, with happy citizens, or are they inmates? Both, to be honest. Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.
~ Margaret Atwood
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
~ Flora Thompson
No," Hal said. "The sea is moving constantly and you have to make little adjustments to keep it going smoothly. You can't take it for granted." "Just like a friendship," she said smiling. And Hal nodded. "Maybe that's why the word ends in ship," he said.
~ John Flanagan
Without doubt, timely and democratic access to financial and market information contributes to smoothly functioning financial markets.
~ Whitney Tilson
I maintain that it is a very odd place to look. What that's called is a singularity, and many theories require a singularity. That means to kick start the intellectual engine you have to go outside the system, and you get one free hypothesis and then once you have used that up your system has to run very very smoothly clear down to the end.
~ Grant Cameron
Mimesis, it seems, works smoothly in only one direction, and life refuses conveniently to mirror the art in which it's seemingly mirrored.
~ Eva Hoffman
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of cloud on either side, and yet never moving from its place.
~ Susan Cooper
The wonder of cells is not that things occasionally go wrong, but that they manage everything so smoothly for decades at a stretch.
~ Bill Bryson
This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.
~ Alex Rodriguez
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
~ Emily Oster
When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.
~ Tara Stiles
My marriage was a bit of a low-key affair due to COVID-19, but things went smoothly.
~ Nithiin
Most of the denizens don't care what the council are doing as long as everything keeps running smoothly from their own perspective, and the only people who get a significant vote anyway are the people who've earned a council seat, either by doing something dramatic or because they've cleverly arranged to be descended from a founding member.
~ Naomi Novik
the fact that because I grew up in a dysfunctional family where there was a lot of tension and conflict, I have a tendency to fall into feeling like there's conflict all around me even when there isn't. Because struggle was a part of my life from day one, sometimes I unthinkingly create drama in my mind because it feels like "home." I forget that things can be easy, that life can go smoothly, and that I can get what I want.
~ Katherine Mayfield
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
~ James Cook
Arsenal is a well-established club with excellent staff who make sure everything runs smoothly.
~ Alexandre Lacazette