#lowly

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

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#camera #canal #changing #dolly #first

Act quickly, think slowly. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#quickly #slowly #think

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. ↗

— Saul Williams

#ever #more #more people #people #poetry

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#deep #down #dream #eyes #fire