Move Slowly Quotes

#1. Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

Joel Miller

#3. Instead, he let his gaze move slowly over Daniel's body. "I've got no reason to be jealous. But I would be if I were him." "Why?" "Because there isn't anything I don't want to do to you, Danny." Trey swung into the car and shut the door.

K.A. Mitchell

#4. The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other ... they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down ...

Lauren Oliver

#5. Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

Newt Gingrich

#6. A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

Sei Shonagon

#7. In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

Chuck Jones

#8. You jeopardize all if move slowly on a fast lane.

Toba Beta

#9. Max is an idiot," Ivy said, struggling to her feet and almost toppling over before Jack caught her. "Slow down, Speed Racer," he said. "You need to move slowly until your body adjusts to its new reality." "And what reality is that?" "The one where you're not super human.

Lily Harper Hart

#10. States, as great engines, move slowly.

Francis Bacon

#11. When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

Pete Seeger

#12. Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

Ann Burton

#13. Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

William Hazlitt

#14. My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Thomas Vilsack

#15. Why, they are so sure of themselves that they do not even hurry. They move slowly, phlegmatically; they speak of necessary centuries. They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.

Isaac Asimov

#16. Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Erin McCarthy

#17. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Napoleon Hill

#18. I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Texas Battle

#19. Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their chairs, fearful that he might explode, or that a dagger from his eye might fly out and gut them.

Sylvain Reynard

#20. Smiling seductively, I run my eyes over him as I slowly part my legs and reach down between my wet thighs, running my fingers over my clit. His eyes follow the move, and his mouth parts as he unconsciously licks his lips. "Wider," he instructs gruffly, reaching down to fist his cock.

Ella Frank

#21. I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Chris Kattan

#22. If you feel the undertow of depression slowly pulling you out into the depths, don't rage at the heavens; don't wear yourself out trying to recover. Wait on God, rest in Him, and let Him pull your spirit homeward. All the tides of this world move toward Him.

David Jeremiah

#23. It's what I'll do now. It's what I'll do tomorrow and the next day. For however long this fight goes on. Just stand up. And I rise slowly to my feet. Heavy and shackled with weight. I still move.

Krista Ritchie

#24. Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed; always move forward.

Noel DeJesus

#25. Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it.

Isabel Allende

#26. Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Pete Du Pont

#27. Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.

Cory Trepanier

#28. In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. I

Margaret Atwood

#29. I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

Jim Hodges

#30. Sid is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

John Leguizamo

#31. A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#32. General relativity then establishes that objects move toward regions where time elapses more slowly; in a sense, all objects "want" to age as slowly as possible. From an Einsteinian perspective, that explains why an object falls when you let go of it.

Brian Greene

#33. The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.

Max Horkheimer

#34. Don't move, he breathed, softer than ever. Logan slowly wrapped his fingers around my hand.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#35. In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

John C. Maxwell

#37. It's amazing how time can move both quickly and slowly at the same time.

Martin Parish

#38. slowly, mile after mile, I unwound the bandages, let my wounds, my scars, crust over. They didn't heal. But I learned to live with them, as you do. Learned how to move, talk, ride, sing, so that the pain wasn't visible

Kelly Gardiner

#39. What are you doing?"
"What I've wanted to do for a long time."
She couldn't move, couldn't think. She was lost in his dark eyes, and as he slowly lowered his head toward hers, she whispered, "Are you going to throttle me, then?"
He was laughing when he kissed her.

Julie Garwood

#40. You needed it rough, but I need this. He laces my fingers in his and brings both of our hands above my head, and starts to move inside me again, slowly, pulling all the way out and pushing all the way in again in a slow, easy pace.

Kristen Proby

#41. Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

Frank Rich

#42. I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

Morris Gleitzman

#43. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

#44. The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

Michel Gondry

#45. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong

#46. The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

Susan Faludi

#47. If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

Nancy Kress

#48. Time slowly begins to move. Even as we begin to awaken to mundane daily life ... I don't want us to forget ... the sadness of living on the backs of unseen sacrifices.

Kaori Yuki

#49. Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

Toba Beta

#50. 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

#51. This wasn't her room or her bed, and it sure as hell wasn't her body. Tears welled and trickled slowly from eyes not her own. Then the pain started. Still, she couldn't move. She could only endure. Terror clawed

Dale Mayer

#52. God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.

Michael Leunig

#53. You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.

Salma Hayek

#54. Nothing will be the same without him."
Micah nods slowly. "I know what you're saying. I guess I'm just wondering how we know when to give up and move on."
I shake my head. "Not yet. I'm not ready to quit fighting.

Paula Stokes

#55. Those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

Rene Descartes

#56. The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Thomas Reed

#57. People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!

David Berg

#58. When they're small, they're part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.

Lisa Unger

#59. His lips slowly twitched. "As a gentleman, I think you should sleep off the drugs in your system." Again, his wide, full lips curved wickedly. "Unless you plan to move your hand lower, then I might forget I'm acting the gentleman because, really, I'm not all that gentlemanly.

Scarlett Dawn

#60. I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

Anne Rice

#61. We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#62. Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up.

Kate Rockland

#63. Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever ... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

Chuck Close

#64. I raised my hand and ran a finger across his lower lip. He closed his beautiful eyes and continued to move inside me, filling me, surrendering to me, slowly and passionately.

Sharlyn G. Branson

#65. In the worlds above, I slowly discovered, to know and be able to think of something is all one needs in order to move toward it.

Eben Alexander