All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.
I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery. . . had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again.
The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
My reputation has grown slowly.
Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.