Slow Quotes - page 2

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. (John Steinbeck)
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans... And to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family. View quote
Mitt Romney
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. View quote
William Shakespeare
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. View quote
Walter Scott
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. View quote
Walter Scott
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. View quote
Neal Barnard
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. View quote
Pierre Loti
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. (Eugenio Montale)
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. View quote
May Sarton
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. View quote
Chuck Schumer
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead. View quote
Cesar Romero
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. View quote
Greg Ginn
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. View quote
Gavin DeGraw
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. View quote
Hayden Fry
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. View quote
Minor White
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. (Mahatma Gandhi)
They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay. View quote
Daniel Handler
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. View quote
John Adams
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. View quote
Samuel Smiles