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Quotes About Slowing

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
~ Kaye Gibbons
It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.
~ Richard Powers
Prince Albert might have been dead for a quarter of a century, but the industry of death showed no sign of slowing.
~ Deanna Raybourn
There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There's no knowing where they're rowing, Or which way the river's flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing. . . .
~ Roald Dahl
There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There's no knowing where they're rowing, Or which way the river's flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing. . . .
~ Roald Dahl
In being slower, time is more capacious. The event is only in the moment. By speeding through life with technology, you reduce what any given moment can hold. By slowing down, you expand it.
~ Eric Brende
I'm a big believer in keeping a certain balance between the whirlwind that life can feel like sometimes, and slowing down and doing things that really make me feel alive.
~ Brandi Cyrus
I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.
~ Rudy Boesch
New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.
~ Chris Gethard
Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.
~ Sarah Weeks
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.
~ Michael Ondaatje
You get old, you slow down.
~ Ben Affleck
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
~ Javier Bardem
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill....
~ Ian Mcewan
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
~ Alan Mulally
Dances of love intertwine such graceful girls lit by the moon on these clear nights. (I, 4) THE SLOWING DOWN OF TIME
~ Carlo Rovelli
So much of our training focuses so much on the systems and how to operate the station, and not just the day-to-day life in terms of slowing down and enjoying the experience.
~ Shannon Walker
Thanks to the growing use of contraceptives, population expansion is slowing down, though not as much as it should.
~ Christian de Duve
Dear summer, slow the fu.. down!
~ Unknown
Simply delaying its arrival in a community or slowing its spread once there—just such minor successes—would have saved many, many thousands of lives.
~ John M. Barry
Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.
~ Murray Walker