Quotes about Slow
that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.
- Peter Kreeft
offices of Love, how we may light'n Each others burden in our share of woe; Since this days Death denounc't, if ought I see, Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac't evill, A
- John Milton
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
- Charles Spurgeon
The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried, and tireless as augmenting afternoon itself. She walked out of their talking too; perhaps out of their minds too.
- William Faulkner
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
- Charles Spurgeon
We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so it was.—Most miserable!
- Herman Melville
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow — yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
- Eugene Peterson
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
- Henry David Thoreau
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.
- Todd Haynes