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Quotes About Slow

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Firestar, you can be so dense.
~ Erin Hunter
Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.
~ Bee Wilson
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
~ Bella Pollen
So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So
~ Ben Aaronovitch
But I like the fog because it slows things up. Things are too damn fast to suit me. I like 'em slow. Like they used to be a century ago.
~ Ben Hecht
Today was slow, so far. The thumb sucker had been in first thing,
~ Benjamin Black
You see, it's the slow knife…the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips between the bones. That's the knife—" With her other hand, she armed the trigger device. "—that cuts deepest.
~ Greg Cox
A glacier consumes whole forests by inches.
~ Greg Iles
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
~ Gregory Maguire
If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
~ Raghuram Rajan
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
~ Lewis Carroll
Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
It was a dream project for Tesla, and Westinghouse was awarded the contract. Construction began immediately, and Tesla would oversee it. Progress was slow.
~ Sean Patrick
Real improvement is of slow growth only.
~ Seneca
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
~ Sergio Aragones
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
~ Sharon Salzberg
That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.
~ J. B. Smoove
Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes. Everything you do on a sailboat is done slowly and thoughtfully. Most of the time, an old body is entirely capable of doing whatever needs to be done while you're cruising. And if the sea is determined to teach you a lesson, well, a young back is no more capable than an old one of resisting an ocean, so experience counts more than ever.
~ Mary Doria Russell
So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love still as once you loved, deeply and without patience. Let God and the world know you are grateful.That the gift has been given.
~ Mary Oliver
Time drags. Time is a monster with a neck bloated with blood.
~ Maryse Condé
The traffic was moving about the speed of a government
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Bruce ate a mouthful of eggs and meditated. 'I wonder how many of the great heroes of history would turn out to be a slow runner, if you ever investigated the circumstances.
~ Barbara Michaels
hours, she took forever over her morning
~ Barbara Michaels