A Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Advances Armies Field Humanity Like Speed

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian - Novelist
March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!

Kim Kardashian

I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.

Mark Henry

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

John Adams

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

Alain Prost

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

Wen Jiabao

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Dale Dauten

I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no, no. You're the second slowest. It seems the older you get the slower they come. I wonder if it is like that for everybody?' He said, 'It ain't with Don Henley. He seems to be writing more than ever.'"

Gregg Allman

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Donald Knuth

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Off the field, all my training is speed and quickness. The agility work, the cones, training with my track coach and keeping my speed.

DeSean Jackson

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

J. F. C. Fuller

The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.