Top Slow Quotes
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
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
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
Stephen Gardiner
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We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown 
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The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
Ernie Pyle
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I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt
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Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
Douglas Horton
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Octavia Butler
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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Georg Buchner
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It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
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By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg
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Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
James Hansen
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Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
Emil Zatopek
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Popular Slow Authors
William ShakespeareBenjamin FranklinThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston Churchill AristotleAbraham Lincoln OvidAlbert CamusGeorge OrwellEdmund BurkeE. M. ForsterJoseph AddisonAnthony TrollopeJessica Savitch
George WashingtonTim Robbins Moliere AesopBillie Jean KingCraig BruceHenny YoungmanP. J. O'RourkeCasey StengelChuck PalahniukJean Jacques RousseauDouglas HortonStephen Gardiner SocratesJanice Dickinson
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