Slowly Quotes
1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors
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Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)
— Elizabeth Kostova
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My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had…
— Diane Setterfield
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He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of…
— Cassandra Clare
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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
— George Orwell
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You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job,…
— Jodi Picoult
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The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing…
— C.S. Lewis
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
— Mark Twain
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Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.
— J D Salinger
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. . . but there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to…
— Barry Lyga
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It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the…
— Roland Barthes
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i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your…
— E E Cummings
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In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in…
— Muriel Barbery
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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition.…
— Sarah Dessen
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I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept…
— Sarah Dessen
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My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to…
— Cameron Dokey
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I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while…
— Kathi Appelt
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You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
— Nick Cave
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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great…
— Anne Frank
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
— George Eliot
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escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll…
— Charles Bukowski
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