Top 59 The Slowest Quotes
#1. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
#2. At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
Bill Vaughan
#3. As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.
Rupert Murdoch
#5. Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#6. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Lew Wallace
#7. Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
#8. The higher spiritual planes vibrate the fastest, and the lower material planes vibrate the slowest (which is why matter appears dense and solid).
Doreen Virtue
#9. Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
Mohsin Hamid
#10. The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
#11. Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Robert Rodriguez
#14. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
#16. In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Aristotle.
#17. Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
Criss Jami
#18. I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.
Chris Isaak
#19. The food that you eat can either be the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore
Mindy Pelz
#20. People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
Steve Jobs
#21. I like poisons, the slowest
and drinks, the stronges
and coffee, the bitterest
and the craziest hallucinations.
You can even throw me off a cliff, I'll say:
So what? I love to fly
Bruna Lombardi
#22. Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.
Rickey Henderson
#23. Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism.
If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear.
You only have to be faster than the slowest camper
Michael Ruppert
#24. I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
Eric Bana
#25. I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
Honor Blackman
#26. I came into the world under the sign of Saturn
the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter Benjamin
#27. I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
Anthony Hopkins
#28. In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
Lois Capps
#29. The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
Wen Jiabao
#30. Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!
Kim Kardashian
#32. The GA's new recruits have to be the slowest learners since the eradication of Down's syndrome.
Peter Watts
#33. This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
Sir John Davies
#35. If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#36. Technology also addresses the necessity to cover a wide range of content in a short length of time by minimizing the need to take each step of the curriculum at a slow enough pace to teach the slowest learners in a single, teacher-directed way.
Peggy Grant
#37. Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.
Murray Walker
#38. But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow ... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
John Quincy Adams
#42. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.
Mark Lawrence
#43. Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.
Dave Barry
#44. Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.
Don Herold
#45. A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
Dale Dauten
#46. He gently caressed her bottom lips with his thumb. "It just occurred to me that I've never told you how beautiful you are until now, which has to make me possibly the slowest, or dumbest, man in the world.
Paige Tyler
#47. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.
Ann Wigmore
#48. Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
Alain Prost
#49. Hey police? I just saw the world's oldest, slowest kid climbing into Pleasantview Cemetery. Looked like he was dying to get in. Yeah, looked like a grave matter to me. Kidding? Oh no, I'm in dead earnest. Maybe you ought to dig into it.
Stephen King
#50. He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.
Stephen Baxter
#51. Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
James Whitcomb Riley
#52. I only run if chased. Even then, I'm only going hard enough to outrun the next slowest person
Kathy Reichs
#53. The M42 bus won the Golden Snail award for being the city's slowest, clocking just 3.6 mph in weekday traffic along 42 St. Even more embarrassing, the M42 lost a race against a kid's big wheel bike
Jeffrey Tanenhaus
#54. The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Frederick Douglass
#55. Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Aaron Levie
#57. The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.
Dave Barry
#58. The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity.
James Gleick
#59. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.
Juliet Marillier
