Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with… — Neil Gaiman
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the… — Leo Tolstoy
I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by… — Lloyd Alexander
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance… — Emily Dickinson
... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. — Curtis Sittenfeld
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip,… — Annie Dillard
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by… — Flannery O'Connor
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of… — Louise Erdrich
We can't stop the world, but there's so much more that we could do You can't stop this girl from falling more in love with… — Demi Lovato
[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would… — Catherine Anderson
Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the… — Koren Zailckas
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and… — Vernon Howard
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as… — C.S. Lewis
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the… — Ally Carter
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His… — Maggie Stiefvater
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,… — Ezra Pound
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to… — Christopher McDougall
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — Michael Pollan
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and… — Ray Bradbury
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the… — Mitch Albom

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