Top 1200 Slow Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

Can't keep up, you haters too slow.

I own up to the fact that I am slow on the greens.

There's one thing about Kyriagos - he's tall, he's physical and he's slow

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments.

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn't nationality, ethnicity or religion. It was "citizen of the world." That's a big deal. Every generation expands the circle of people we consider one of us. And in our generation, that now includes the whole world. This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness, and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism, and nationalism - forces for the flow of knowledge, trade, and immigration, against those who would slow them down.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Decisiveness turns slow players into fast ones.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

Be quick to make decisions, but slow to give up.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

I mean, everyone has to calm down sometime. I'll still smoke up and party, but yeah, eventually you gotta settle down and be an adult. But still have fun. Demi's helped me sort of like, understand that down the road it'll just happen.

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.