James Hutton Quotes

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

This thaw took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

No great thing happens suddenly.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.