Top 40 Speak Slow Quotes
#1. Because, as any English-speaking tourist will tell you, if you speak slow enough, loud enough, and maintain good eye contact, eventually they'll understand.
Poppy Inkwell
#2. You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go.
Tegan Quin
#3. Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry.
Anonymous
#4. Quikc to listen. Slow to speak. Slow to get angry.
Idawati Zhang
#5. We're both crazy, like those who first invented love.
Paulo Coelho
#6. He headed for the stairs, pulling me along behind him. He was forceful, yet took the steps at a slow pace so I did not stumble. It was an overwhelming experience, heightened by the fact he didn't speak, nor once look back at me.
Lorraine Loveit
#7. Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
Lois Wyse
#8. We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words
and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)
Thomas Newkirk
#9. Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.
Jim Calhoun
#10. When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#11. You see people who speak slowly as being less intelligent - slow.
David McRaney
#12. Hey, slow down... please speak clearly and understandable on the topic what happen!
Deyth Banger
#13. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Cleobulus
#14. According to Ahava, the woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor.
Rachel Held Evans
#16. Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.
Tim Farron
#17. When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn't what you were looking for.
Tegan Quin
#19. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
#20. The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.
Kim Edwards
#21. Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person h be quick to hear, i slow to speak, j slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Anonymous
#22. We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
Francis Chan
#23. I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
#24. I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
to.
Daniel Handler
#25. You're talking about the whole 'completing each other' thing, and I hate that. It's such Hollywood bullshit. We don't complete each other - no two people do. We just highlight what's missing. We're just two incomplete people.
Stephen Emond
#26. Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.
Laurie Helgoe
#27. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#28. ...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.
Eve Chase
#29. To be a mentor you must learn to be quick to listen and be slow to speak.
Euginia Herlihy
#30. I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.
Theresa May
#31. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Michael Caine
#32. You have to learn to convince yourself that the possibility is greater than the inevitability of doing nothing. Listen,
Steve Harvey
#33. I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
Gareth Gates
#34. Many people, in the small hours of the morning, scribble passionate lyrics of supreme beauty; only to find, next morning, that daylight has washed the beauty away, leaving only ashes.
Edith Olivier
#35. It was a heavy piece, about thirty inches in height, carved of stone. And so ugly that it defied description. Surely only a blind person could have carved it.
Maybe carving it was what made the person blind.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. I've got a little baby, I made him ... He doesn't speak, he's 2 ... He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words ... car and map ... I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble!
Michael McIntyre
#37. puts her little finger in my face. "I don't speak Behemoth, so I'll talk slow. You should learn some manners before the villagers chase you with fiery torches. You shouldn't go around putting your hands on people, no matter how hot you are.
Alexa Riley
#38. I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
Tilda Swinton
#39. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills
#40. A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
Confucius
