Quotes with slowly

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  • Michael Caine The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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  • Peter de Vries The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • M. Scott Peck The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Anatole Broyard The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Lucille Ball The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Terry Waite The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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  • Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Ben Stein There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • T. S. Eliot We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Carl Honore You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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