Top 1200 Slow And Steady Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!

You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.

Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile.

In the category of U.S. interest, Israeli intelligence services regularly share valuable and essential information about the Middle East. As the region has all but collapsed under Obama's leadership, Israel has been a reliable, steady, stable force in the region.

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.

This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Every time I think I'm going to take it slow, a good script comes along.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

It [sex-ed] was such a slow rollout for me. I just didn't know what the hell was happening.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

I love Charlotte. I'm more reserved and calm and laid back, and this city is slow.

I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.

Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.