He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.
James Richardson Quotes
born 1950 United States
James Richardson (January 1 1950) is an American poet.
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87 quotes
Whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
I’ve spent so long trying to fly that it’s too late to set out on foot.
Interglacial (2004)
It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don’t understand.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Gravity's reciprocal: the planet rises to the sparrow's landing.
Interglacial (2004)
Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.
Interglacial (2004)
The new gets old much faster than the old gets older.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
There is no road to the land without roads.
Interglacial (2004)
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.