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Quotes About Slow

He had such slow reactions to everything. Physical danger. Emotional blows. Sometimes his reactions were weeks late, so that
~ Patricia Highsmith
Bagi generasi muda, perubahan itu terlalu lambat Bagi kaum tradisionalis tua, perubahan itu menghujat
~ Dan Brown
For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.
~ Dan Brown
Kale pe a," repeated my friend. "It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means—go slowly if you wish to return." And
~ Dan Simmons
The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried, and tireless as augmenting afternoon itself. She walked out of their talking too; perhaps out of their minds too.
~ William Faulkner
He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm.
~ William Faulkner
He came obediently, wailing, that slow hoarse sound that ships make, that seems to begin before the sound itself has started, seems to cease before the sound itself has stopped.
~ William Faulkner
He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
~ William Gaddis
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
~ Chinese proverb
Culture change is difficult and slow. To have any chance to succeed, the meeting needed to deliver a jolt.
~ Chip Heath
days slow as cattle grazing in a parched summer field.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
As always, Gary drove in slow circles around the lot, blasting his horn and shouting community-sustaining threats and maledictions.
~ Chris Bachelder
long, slow and painful recuperation of Republican history and memory
~ Helen Graham
But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.
~ Henry Marsh
There's a small part of my heart that's always sad Part of me that walks with a slow aching step Forever longing The beauty of that To be forever longing Too much joy makes the time pass too quickly A bit of sadness slows things down so you can see it
~ Henry Rollins
And the Sunday trains are as slow as a Scotchman saying good-bye to a bawbee…Look here, the only one you'll have time to catch now is the 4:
~ Leslie Charteris
Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.
~ Susan Wojcicki
I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
~ John McCain
Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.
~ Jasper Fforde
We promote the cure, thus effecting the slow eradication of our own market
~ Jasper Fforde
Regarde, spectateur, remontée à bloc, de telle sorte que le ressort se déroule avec lenteur tout le long d'une vie humaine, une des plus parfaites machines construites par les dieux infernaux pour l'anéantissement mathématique d'un mortel.
~ Jean Cocteau
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.
~ Hillary Clinton
Mr. Furrow jerked a thumb toward the mule in the back of the barn. "Rabbit'll kill anything comes near his carrot if he hasn't done with it. And he'll kick you if you make him go too fast in the field. I'd whip him, but he's so old a whipping might kill him, and he's our last and only mule. So we just keep away from his carrot and we keep it slow. That's the rules with Rabbit.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart