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Quotes About Slow-moving

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.
~ John C. Danforth
the stately and slow-moving Turk, With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm.
~ William Wordsworth
Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises — car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.
~ David Suzuki
The problem with the NCAA - it's slow-moving.
~ John Calipari
No one could have predicted that a defenseless, slow-moving biped should become the pinnacle of Creation.
~ Ernst W. Mayr
His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.
~ Simon Winchester
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
~ Rebecca De Mornay
Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the dreamy, colored, slow-moving Malay life which passes below the hill. There is never any hurry or noise.
~ Isabella Bird
The goal here is to recognize that slow-moving when problems have all the gravity of fast-moving what calamities—and deserve the same collective response.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
~ Marcel Proust
The slow-moving atmosphere surrounding the cafe so captivated me that I desired nothing more than to dwell within it.
~ Patti Smith