#gradual

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. ↗

— George C. Williams

#decisions #devising #gradually #help #human

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#classes #derives #during #extinguished #gradually

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#accents #angeles #been #change #ever

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#every #every time #getting #getting old #going

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approach #born #could #eighteen #eighty

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#any #climbs #daily #down #drops

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#dramatic #even #events #gradual #granted