Slowly Quotes

1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors

This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus… — E. Nesbit
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. — William Shakespeare
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly… — William Butler Yeats
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of… — Hermann Hesse
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men… — Bertrand Russell
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked… — Caroline Stevermer
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a… — Aldous Huxley
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own. — Mary Oliver
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to… — Naomi Shihab Nye
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. — Marianne Williamson
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can… — Margaret Atwood
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because… — Mark Haddon
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps… — Jenny Downham
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his… — Miguel de Cervantes
...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,… — Mary Oliver
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. — Harper Lee
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the… — Wendell Berry
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used… — Charles Morgan

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