When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)
I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. . . . Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly. . . are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.