The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.
Quotes from Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays — James Richardson
born 1950 United States
← All quotes by James Richardson
74 quotes
A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
There are crimes I don’t commit mainly because I don’t want to find out I could.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
What I’m not changes more than what I am.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Richardson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.