It's not often people see a three stone tortoise walking around Parliament. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
“As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out,” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on… — Lucas Remmerswaal Copy Share Image
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Tortoises are not very fast, as everyone knows, but they make up for their slow speed by being very determined. And if… — William Herring Copy Share Image
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“My name," I tell Wilbur in the most dignified voice I can find, "Was inspired by Harriet Quimby, the first female American… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise or hare in life! — Lucas Remmerswaal Copy Share Image
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If… — Lucas Remmerswaal Copy Share Image
