Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
I haven't seen a single institution in the corporate world operating smoothly without a HR team.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
Being vegan keeps my body fueled and running smoothly.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.
It's all good being there for people when things are going well and smoothly but what really comes through is how you operate with someone when they need you the most.
Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.
Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
Arsenal is a well-established club with excellent staff who make sure everything runs smoothly.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Transitions don't always go smoothly; you need a recovery process.
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Things don't always go smoothly.
I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.
You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.
I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.
He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.
My marriage was a bit of a low-key affair due to COVID-19, but things went smoothly.
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.
Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
You can get an interview that goes smoothly at any time.
Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.
When you have three different coaches in the same qualifying competition, there are bound to be things that don't work smoothly.
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.
I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any character very smoothly.
It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.
Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably,
its parts must be standard and hence replaceable,
features which contribute, respectively,
to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
Things never go smoothly.
Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.
'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
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