I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.
The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter
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.
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.
When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.
When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
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.
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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.
True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.
Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
I think that anybody gradually learns the things that go deeper than his own heart.
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy
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.
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
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.
For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
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.
Losing the ability to talk to each other doesn't just happen overnight. Things like that develop gradually.
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.
I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
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.
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
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