Richard Wright Quotes

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

I'll let you go. If you stay.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

Life itself is controversy.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.