Slow Quotes

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

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

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.

The march of the human mind is slow.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

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

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

You get old, you slow down.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

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.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

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

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

My brother is really, really slow.

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

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

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.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.