Europe has grown through crises. Each crisis also presents opportunities, and Europe has emerged stronger from each one. That is the way history unfolds. Europe is sometimes slow, and it reacts sluggishly, but it is capable of finding solutions.
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.
If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.
Perhaps the society has been too quick to understand and too slow to condemn.
I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.
The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.
Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.
Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
He must be lightning slow.
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
Then way Washington deals with outside events is to move, usually, very slowly. I don’t see any change in American policy unless the pressure mounts.
It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
