#lowly

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#our #proceed #slowly #trenches

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#base #heaven #high #humble #i

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

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

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#among #arm #believe #carried #earliest

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#anything #crushing #exactly #how #i

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#anything #endures #fast #grows #one thing

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human