Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
Dr. Nefario: We have to warn him, and FAST! [starts driving on his moped very slowly]
Lord Farquaad: [Slowly and dramatically to the looking glass] Magic... mirror... on... the wa... Gingerbread Man: DON'T TELL HIM ANYTHING!
In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of the stimulus which is responsible for the inflammatory reaction.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Gabe watched, holding his breath as the figure slowly turned. The body moved in an almost unnatural way as it shifted and crawled slowly on all fours across the floor. When the candlelight at last fell on the figure, Gabe could make out the auburn ha...
I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now they've got me so I'm scared and shaky, like a little kid is of the dark. I want you men to help me. Won't you men help me?' 'We'll help you' - sai...
There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can arrive a place and never really enter it; you get there...
Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time's scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ru...
She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.
Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.
While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.
Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.
