#imperceptibly

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#imperceptibly #instruments #make #set #similarly

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. ↗

— David Attenborough

#environmental #going #hope #i #i can