#slowly

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-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#over #sea #slowly #surely

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. ↗

— Irene Mayer Selznick

#i #like #old #possible #slowly

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#came #change #character #charlie #did

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#devil #get #joy #life #motion

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#develop #develops #fade #gradually #intimacy

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#again #almost #back #band #blue

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ↗

— Mae West

#doing #slowly #worth

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. ↗

— Edward Teller

#clearly #fast #goes #improves #life