Slow Quotes

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
- Henry Van Dyke

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover,
through the detours of art, those two or three great
and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus

The world is changing very fast.
Big will not beat small anymore.
It will be the fast beating the slow.
- Rupert Murdoch

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Moliere

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
- Michael Pollan

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down -
at least he did until he dropped dead.
- Cesar Romero

It's hardware that makes a machine fast.
It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
- Craig Bruce

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you
feel like you have more time.
Everything computes - you have options,
but you always take the right one.
- John McEnroe

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the
most faithful in the performance of it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
- Roger Penrose

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts:
but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper
never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
- M. Kathleen Casey

There are no shortcuts to victory.
We must commit ourselves to the slow,
painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
- Richard Lugar

Slow down and enjoy life.
It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Eddie Cantor

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing,
how I chewed fast, slow or what have you,
I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.
- Rod Steiger

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good
television news is always substance over form.
- Jessica Savitch

You don't burn out from going too fast.
You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
- Cliff Burton

A good, quick, small team can beat a big,
slow team any time.
- Paul Bryant

When someone screams at me to hurry up,
I slow down.
- Mario Lemieux

And film acting is incredibly tedious,
just by its nature.
It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
- Hugh Grant

I recommend the art of slow reading.
- Amos Oz

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow,
assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
- Eugenio Montale

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire
to become a minister transformed itself into a wish
to lead the more militant life of missionary,
by a slow process or suddenly.
- Pierre Loti

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period,
so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time,
especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
- Martin C. Smith

Life is short and progress is slow.
- Gabriel Lippmann

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
- Henny Youngman

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact.
Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath
the oppressions of his age.
- John Jay Chapman

Justice is not to be taken by storm.
She is to be wooed by slow advances.
- Benjamin Cardozo

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow.
It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
- Sanaa Lathan

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still
long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
- Minor White

One thing at a time, all things in succession.
That which grows fast withers as rapidly;
and that which grows slow endures.
- J. G. Holland

Young men soon give, and soon forget,
affronts; old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death,
but then I'm in no hurry.
- Robert Benchley

But with the slow menace of a glacier,
depression came on.
No one had any measure of its progress;
no one had any plan for stopping it.
Everyone tried to get out of its way.
- Frances Perkins

You have undertaken to cheat me.
I won't sue you, for the law is too slow.
I'll ruin you.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
- Richie Benaud

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
- Edwin W. Edwards

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge,
everything was moving in slow motion.
- Eminem

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
- Louis Nizer

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo
and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is
entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay,
their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
- Thomas Tusser

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
- Lawrence Welk

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow,
infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive
the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
- William Kingdon Clifford

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it.
Most people are so impatient; they just assume that
the person with hearing loss is being rude,
or slow-witted.
- Marion Ross

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
- Douglas Horton

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms
of government those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than
you can make in a whole week in the Senate...
it's too slow for me.
- Chuck Robb

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea.
I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient,
which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
- J. B. Priestley

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth
and I could have gone quicker,
but I had to go slow.
It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.
- Alain Prost

It's a very slow process - two steps forward,
one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
- Rob Reiner

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day.
That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those
million and a half words of the Civil War.
- Shelby Foote

America may be slow to rise to a challenge.
But our history has shown that once we make up our
minds to really do something,
nothing can stand in our way.
- Carrie P. Meek

Beware of him that is slow to anger;
for when it is long coming,
it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.
Abused patience turns to fury.
- Francis Quarles

It's always been too slow for me.
Playing.
The pace of things.
I'm a fast sprinter.
The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months,
I couldn't reach that point.
- Syd Barrett

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible,
unstoppable.
One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily;
and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
- Leon Foucault

What comes easiest for me is dialogue.
Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me,
I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
- Richard Russo

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