Famous quotes containing the word slowly:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (19251986)
“The person or persons involved
Parading slowly through the sunlit fields
Not only as though the danger did not exist
But as though the birds were in on the secret.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“In my practice Ive seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happens slowly instead of all at once. I didnt seem to mind.... All of us, a little bit. We harden our hearts. Grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear.”
—Daniel Mainwaring (19021977)
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