#slowly

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#going #i #important #listen #must

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#central #everglades #expanse #fact #grass

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

— Fernand Braudel

#divided #history #into #may #move

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ↗

— Arthur Helps

#boredom #dying #faculties #less #sense

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ↗

— Confucius

#go #how #long #matter #slowly

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#back #had #hoped #i #life

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

#best #faculties #force #great #men

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily. ↗

— Celeste Holm

#die #encouragement #live #sadly #slowly

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them. ↗

— Laura Innes

#bites #buried #character #deeply #done