Quotes About Slow

A turtle doesn't get up on a bookshelf by itself

Take your time. Get serene.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly.

Ia devagar, como se carregasse um peso dentro de si, ia como que curvado por dentro.

Et sa chanson ne ressemblait en rien à toutes celles que, ici, on avait l'habitude d'entendre. C'était une complainte, très vieille et très lente, d'une simplicité terrible et dont chaque mot tombait un à un, comme ces cailloux qu'on jette dans une eau étale et qui la font trembler longtemps, ride sur ride, onde sur onde.

Nous sommes les escargots des sommets. (p. 18)

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

My career has been an inch at a time.

Poi nella sua spina dorsale si spiralò, lunga e lenta, l'onda della paura della battaglia ripensata.

Eppure la lentezza -a differenza dell'ozio, che richiede doti agonistiche- ha ancora il suo fascino.

women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

history takes a long time to happen.

Once we really get the full measure of it—we're slow learners, we women—we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production. But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.

Are you slow or are you falling in love with me?

My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight, during those slow hours in which memory, like a ghost among ruins, stalks our thoughts.

incomplete and slow, people depended on a brand's imprimatur for quality assurance. In the book business, the average number of stars on Amazon and the first few comments that strangers have posted

The key to making time slow down is to have new experiences

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.

You do, mostly, in track, different sessions, sprinting and medium sessions in different style. You have to see that even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and you can still power the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

He'd had a need to be gentle, had wanted this to be slow and lazy, as though something sweet and easy could take away the misery of the day. It wasn't quite the sweet and tender seduction he'd hoped for, but as the climax rushed up on them, claiming them both hard and demanding, as she rested her forehead to his, their gazes locked, her mouth seeking out his … everything else fell away. In those moments, nothing else existed but each other.