“ 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. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
- 417
“ 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. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Dresden James- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Martha Gellhorn- Copy
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“ Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 586
“ Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ”
- Thomas Carruthers- Copy
- 578
“ We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness — but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 192
“ One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ But we do want to raise consciousness... that such attacks are growing increasingly likely. ”
- Janet Reno- Copy
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“ You cannot deny that the influence of money and lobbying on this town has gotten progressively worse over the last several years. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. ”
- Barry Commoner- Copy
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“ Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
- 514
“ Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
- 96
“ Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home. ”
- April Foiles- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. ”
- Robert Sternberg- Copy
- 997
“ Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. ”
- Horatio W. Dresser- Copy
- 587
“ If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms … he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it. ”
- Philip Henry Gosse- Copy
- 140
“ 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. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas Troward- Copy
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