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Definition of Slowly

Slowly

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

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Early, In, Manner, Moderately, Not, Rapidly, Rashly, Slow

Slowly Quotations

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Dave Barry

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Arthur Ashe

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
David Hockney

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
David Attenborough

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
David Herbert Lawrence

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
Arthur Erickson

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Lytton Strachey

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
Roger Bannister

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
Dennis Ritchie

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Herman Hesse

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Lord Mountbatten

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem

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Slowly Translations

slowly in Danish is langsomt
slowly in Dutch is op zijn gemak, zachtjes, langzaam
slowly in French is lente, lent
slowly in German is langsam, langsame
slowly in Hungarian is lassan
slowly in Italian is placido, lungo, lenta
slowly in Latin is lente, delicate
slowly in Portuguese is lentamente
slowly in Spanish is lenta, placido, lentamente, despacio
slowly in Swedish is sakta

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