Imperceptibly Quotes

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. - Denis Diderot

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. - Gavin Bryars

One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave. - Charles Dickens

O Nanak, those who are united with Him shall not be separated again. They merge imperceptibly into God. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

O Nanak, they merge imperceptibly into the Lord, who has bestowed His Favor upon them. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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

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

As the Sun during eight months ,imperceptibly draws up the water with his rays, even so let him gradually draw his taxes from his kingdom, for that is the office in which he resembles the Sun. - Guru Nanak

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