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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.
The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour.
The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
It took time, and it happened gradually, but by the time I started college, I felt truly comfortable with my body.
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.
Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.
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.
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.
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.
My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
My holidays in Hyderabad would be spent on films sets visiting my father and uncle, or in the studios; I was gradually drawn to films.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.
There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.
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.
Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
