No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said…

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes…

— Nikolaj Velimirovic

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

— Seneca the Younger

“In modern time slowness is new sickness.”

— Amit Kalantri

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his…

— Francis Galton

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have…

— Alex Campbell

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

— Arturo Toscanini

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed…

— Donald Hall

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

— Annalee Newitz

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Part of me thinks the slowness is on your side.”

— Kiera Cass

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

— Alain de Botton