Quotes About Slow

and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer—he

I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and without your even noticing, the ground around you is swallowed by water until it's gone

With the benefit of hindsight it is arguable that the Royal Navy would have had better value from the 15in-gun battlecruisers for which sketch designs were prepared in November 1921, and which were subsequently rejected in favour of the slow, heavily armoured 23-knot battleship.

was only as he passed Diana's carriage that he slowed

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

We also have ferries, known on the island as "the fast boat" and "the slow boat." The slow boat is operated by the Steamship Authority and is the only way to bring a vehicle. If you want to bring your vehicle to Nantucket, you must get a reservation (and these sell out way in advance, starting in early January!).

hated the British business culture which I saw as slow, bureaucratic, cumbersome, lacking customer service, lacking initiatives.

Kit caught the glitter of flirelight on marble, heard the slow drip of water spattering against stone.

He drew a long, slow breath, tasting mold and wet upon it, and shaped the well-loved words.

Whatever moved in Kit was vast and slow, a symphony of emotion that swelled from discord into something complex and bittersweet and whole.

He heard Will's startled gasp, the long slow rattle of his breath permitted to slide back out.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

Where Churches Are at Fault • Churches are too slow to change their methods. • Churches have failed to take advantage of their opportunities. • Churches don't value evangelism. • Churches aren't recruiting gifted leaders.

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape...but there will be payment, slow payment —not quick, not quick at all!

It is our bureaucracy-encrusted organizations that are slow witted, not the people inside them.

The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things:

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.