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Quotes About Slow

was slow, so we took a chance and got out again back
~ Lee Child
The traffic rolled on, but strangely, always moving but very slowly, as if every driver was a movie guy shooting a scene in slow motion.
~ Lee Child
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
~ Agnes Varda
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
~ Wangari Maathai
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.
~ Lewis Black
Lordul Edward È™i fratele s?u luau aer în parcul Gattenden. Lordul Edward lua aer plimbîndu-se. Al cincilea marchiz lua aer într-un fotoliu pe rotile, tras de un m?gar mare, cenuÈ™iu. Marchizul era infirm. "Asta nu împiedic?, din fericire, s?-mi umble mintea", îi pl?cea lui s? spun?. Mintea îi umblase haotic, de colo-colo, toat? viaÈ›a. M?garul cenuÈ™iu mergea încet, foarte încet.
~ Aldous Huxley
ObiÈ™nuinÈ›a naÈ™te dispreÈ›, iar supravieÈ›uirea pretinde nu atât gesturi imperioase, cât mai degrab? lente, plicticoase È™i chinuitoare. Lumea din afar? este ceea ce ne întâmpin? la trezire, în fiecare diminea?? a vieÈ›ii noastre, nu-i aÈ™a? Locul în care, vrând-nevrând, trebuie s? încerc?m s? obÈ›inem cele necesare traiului. În lumea interioar? nu exist? nici munc?, nici monotonie.
~ Aldous Huxley
And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by that slow fever which creeps over the heart and changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the other and ever born anew.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Yoga postures, were traditionally practiced very slowly, with each movement synchronized to the breath, in order to balance the nervous system and open a perceptual gateway to the parasympathetic nervous system. This makes us available to our feeling function.
~ Donna Farhi
I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body. This grief. How slow The body is to realize You are never coming back.
~ Donna Masini Slowly
Who changes, who even slows this dead dazzling drunk in the wings of life we live?
~ Du Fu
Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me
~ Dumb & Dumber
Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
~ Humphry Davy
Meu cavalo era bom, eu tinha dinheiro na algibeira, eu estava bem armado. Virei, vagaroso.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Love conquers, deceitful and slow, With a soft amateurish refrain. So strange to think – not long ago You weren't dejected and gray.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
~ Anne Stevenson
Because of the pro-innovation bias, we know much more (1) about the diffusion of rapidly spreading innovations than about the diffusion of slowly diffusing innovations, (2) about adoption than about rejection, and (3) about continued use than about discontinuance
~ Everett M. Rogers
and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word 'dissipate' -- to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. In the little hours of the night every move from place to place was an enormous human jump, an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The college dreamed on-- awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
pude enfim, eu que não dormira, erguer lentamente o corpo exausto de nada da cama de onde pensara o universo
~ Fernando Pessoa
If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
~ Adam Ondra
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.
~ Mike Figgis