Slow Quotes - page 2

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. (Mitt Romney)

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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.

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.

Walter Scott

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

Walter Scott

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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.

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.

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. (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.

May Sarton

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

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.

Chuck Schumer

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

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.

Greg Ginn

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

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.

Hayden Fry

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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. (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.

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.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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