Slow Quotes - page 47

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. (Charles Dickens)
. . .I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything. View quote
Charles Dickens
I feel like a spinning top or a Dreidel The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle You just slow down. View quote
Don McLean
I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down. View quote
Don McLean
EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation. View quote
Václav Klaus
Mass migration is like a slow and steady current of water which washes away the shore. It appears in the guise of humanitarian action, but its true nature is the occupation of territory; and their gain in territory is our loss of territory. View quote
Viktor Orbán
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. View quote
Courteney Cox
The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore. View quote
Angelus Silesius
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. View quote
Eric Carle
Contemporary China is a complex society in transition. The kinds of technological and social changes that took societies in the west centuries to move through have sometimes been experienced by a mere two generations in China. The anxiety of careening out of balance, of being torn by parts moving too fast and too slow, is felt everywhere. View quote
Liu Cixin
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before. (Jerry Saltz)
The game today is entirely different to when I played. But I still think it's pretty smart. Maybe the biggest change lies in the simple fact that if you're a bit slow today, mentally or physically, you're not going to survive. View quote
Jack Gibson
I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide...I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes. View quote
Jacqueline Woodson
Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity. View quote
James Richardson
Then say–how come the years to seem so swift, The days, the days so slow? View quote
Jan Struther
The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity. View quote
Joe Biden
Death did not come to my mother Like an old friend. She was a mother, and she must Conceive him. Up and down the bed she fought crying Help me, but death Was a slow child Heavy. View quote
Josephine Miles
The question of origins can't be proven through experimentation-indeed, there is no absolute proof for either evolution or creation! But a creation geologist looks at the layers of rock and the fossil record and finds that much of it fits in the biblical framework of a catastrophic global Flood, not in the evolutionary model of slow erosion over millions of years. View quote
Ken Ham
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. View quote
Homer
Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow? Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms Must pay the penalty for lawless charms. View quote
Homer
The perturbations which the motions of planets suffer from the influence other planets, are so small and so slow that they only become sensible after a long interval of time; within a shorter time. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. View quote
William Shakespeare
Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you be to yourself As you would to your friend. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love moderately long love doth so too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. View quote
William Shakespeare