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

Love, Time, Fear

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

Time, Power, Best

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

Work, Lonely, Humble

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

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

Best, Grow, Trees

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

Single, May, Act

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

Friendship, Art, Fall

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

Friendship, Work, Friends

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

Friendship, True, Before

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare

Run, Fast, Wisely

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

Friend, Changing, Choosing

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

Work, Great, Art

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

Famous, Moving, Everything

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne

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

Friendship, Before, Adversity

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

Patience, Anger, Long

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

Health, Great, Mind

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

Time, Perfection, Hand

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins

Death, Democracy, Apathy

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.
Mitt Romney

Family, Help, President

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes

Long, Through, Problem

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

Gossip, Fire, Tongue

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell

Progress, Happens, Illusion

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
Leighton Meester

Yourself, Everything, Friends

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

Life, Down, Enjoy

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Wait, Able

The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, March

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
Charles Stanley

Time, May, Down

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen

Cannot, Fast, Watch

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