There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
Quintus Arrius: [a galley's 200 rowers are gradually told to increase their pace] Battle speed!... Attack speed!... Ramming speed!
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger's obsession.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.
Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
