“We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!”
“We can take this “we belong together” thing slow”
“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”
“But war has a long fuse, and a slow match.”
“The best thing about knitting is its slowness," says Murphy. "It is so slow that we see the beauty inherent in every tiny act that makes up a sweater. So slow that we know the project is not going to get finished today--it may not get finished for many months or longer--and that allows us to make our peace with the unresolved nature of life. We slow down as we knit.”
“Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.”