Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a… — Alexander Pope
The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. — Lord Chesterfield
My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.… — Jim Butcher
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about… — Robert Towne
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great… — Frank Waters
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle… — Sue Monk Kidd
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
Literally, these [heels] slow you down. — Kristen Stewart
They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. — Terrence Howard
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to… — Mark Twain
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — Aldo Leopold
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be… — Emily Greene Balch
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched… — Patrick Ness
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to… — Alexander Graham Bell
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a… — Larry Page
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to… — C.S. Lewis

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