Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.
We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.
I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I think he had in mind a certain breadth of understanding and experience - and so my political interests developed more slowly than the others.
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U. S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
Smile, breathe, go slowly.
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.