I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.
Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.
I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.
The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.
I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question. " Well, my answers are slow.
Education is a slow moving but powerful force
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
. . . the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere is almost entirely the result of photosynthetic living, which had its start with the appearance of blue-green algae among the microorganisms.
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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.
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.
There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t. v.
Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.
I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.
I'd like to make time slow down.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.