Slow Left Arm

Famous quotes containing the words slow, left and/or arm:

    He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    So many things I had thought forgotten
    Return to my mind with stranger pain:
    Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
    Who left the house so many years ago.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)