Godwin Quotes & Sayings

Putting your trust in someone is the most vulnerable thing you can do — Pam Godwin

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. — Fay Godwin

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. — William Godwin

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. — Fay Godwin

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. — William Godwin

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process. — Fay Godwin

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. — William Godwin

I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will." His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. "I won't be free until you are. — Pam Godwin

If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"? Remorse — Gail Godwin

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. — Gail Godwin

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. — Fay Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country. — William Godwin

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13 ... — Malcolm Godwin

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman — Gail Godwin

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. — William Godwin

He just happens to be even more beautiful in person than on Twitter, and screw this- he's totally from Saturn. Earthlings don't look like this. — Nikki Godwin

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. — Fay Godwin

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit. — Gail Godwin

Our expectancies are rewarded by substances. — Malcolm Godwin

Men will always underestimate you and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely.- Ser Godwin — George R R Martin

The entire hierarchy of angels
can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings,
who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God. — Malcolm Godwin

I fucking love you. I don't deserve to love you, but I will spend the rest of my life earning that right. You are my music, do you understand? — Pam Godwin

If you were a butterfly, what color would you bleed?" I ask.
He looks at me like I just asked him to pluck his eyeballs out. Then his face softens a bit.
"Blue," he answers. "And you, Ms. Branson?"
I think about my own question for a moment. I don't want to be typical and say my favorite color like he did.
"Orange," I say.
He studies my face. "Why orange?"
"Because blue burns orange," I say. "I figure no two colors could ever be closer than those igniting a flame. — Nikki Godwin

The boy sat in my room for fifteen minutes last night working up the nerve to go downstairs and talk to you. Then he cam back and said 'We ate cookies. See you in the morning,' and went to his room. Give me something, Chloe. — Nikki Godwin

She requests that the guys sing happy birthday to her, which works for us because no one wants to attempt to sing when you have professional musicians in the room with you. — Nikki Godwin

My wish is for you to be my firefly. After lockdown ends, we'll only see each other in moments, for short flickers of time. — Nikki Godwin

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. — William Godwin

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers. — Gail Godwin

Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger. — Mike Godwin

They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see which of them was more broken. But for the first time, she felt like she had to vanquish her mental illness not for herself but for someone else. Because she was broken with him, and if she fixed herself, maybe she could make him a little less broken, too. — Pam Godwin

In Britain, chinoiserie was eclipsed by the medievalism of Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic Revival, while in Europe japonisme would be chinoiserie's successor. Japonisme never compelled the general middle-class British taste as did the indigenous medieval style. Nonetheless, through extensive importations to Britain of Japanese art and artifacts, notably by the shop Liberty's of London, as well as through the artists James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the architect E.W. Godwin, and the writer Oscar Wilde, the Japanese style of decoration was known in Britain well before 1894. — Linda Gertner Zatlin

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin

Existence required order, and there was order; the laws of nature, irrevocable and immutable. — Tom Godwin

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime. — Gail Godwin

It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there. — Linda M. Godwin

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. — William Godwin

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it. — Linda M. Godwin

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train. — William Godwin

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. — Fay Godwin

Pain flashed through his eyes. "Dammit, Evie." Steam huffed against my mouth. "I'm fucking drowning in my desire to be near you, to touch you" - he dropped his brow on mine and inhaled - "to be inside you." ~ Jesse Beckett — Pam Godwin

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all. — William Godwin

There's not a stone or leaf or life that men won't put a name to. It gives them a nice safe box to collect things in. They get in the habit of collecting things and end up surprised at the weight they're carrying. A dream they thought might fit someday, something bright and sweet like a woman, picked up for her shine and somehow never left or at least never forgotten. Or an ambition! There's a fine item in any man's bag. A great, glowing ambition. They never fade, never wear even when you've outgrown them. Always there to look at and remember and play might-have-been. — Parke Godwin

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them. — Linda M. Godwin

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns. — Gail Godwin

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. — Gail Godwin

Casey recalled how Gail defended herself in the parking lot of the English & Philosophy Building from the unwanted attentions of a lecherous fellow student, who shall remain nameless. 'Please leave me alone,' Ms Godwin warned the offending student, 'or I shall be forced to wound you with a weapon you can ill afford to be wounded by in a town this small.' The threat was most mysterious, not to mention writerly, but the oafish lecher was not easily deterred. 'And what might that weapon be, little lady?' the lout allegedly asked. 'Gossip,' Gail Godwin replied. — John Irving

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin

You're the last woman left. And ye fancy sex. And now you're trapped in a vault with a celibate priest. Tell me how ye den' see the humor in it? — Pam Godwin

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them. — William Godwin

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin

It's okay. It's going to be okay. Were his words for me or himself? — Pam Godwin

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. — William Godwin

I am aged with a sickness of the mind. — Parke Godwin

You cannot fall in love with me." "Cannot ... what? — Pam Godwin

The wise man is satisfied with nothing. — William Godwin

We need each other, not because our bodies fit so well together. But because our hearts beat the same tune, for the same reason. — Pam Godwin

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. — Gail Godwin

But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives. — Gail Godwin

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy. — Linda M. Godwin

Nothing is inconceivable, and everything is possible. The proof is in the magic of music. — Pam Godwin

Works of art are landscapes of the mind. — Ted Godwin

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them. — Gail Godwin

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. — Gail Godwin

I can feel you." He leaned back, inhaled deeply. "Inside me. Everywhere. You own me. You will always own me, and I will walk through hell to keep it that way. — Pam Godwin

Incendiary

That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese
And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze
As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and gold
And zany yellow as the one that spoiled
Three thousand guineas' worth of property
And crops at Godwin's Farm on Saturday
Is frightening---as fact and metaphor:
An ordinary match intended for
The lighting of a pipe or kitchen fire
Misused may set a whole menagerie
Of flame-fanged tigers roaring hungrily.
And frightening, too, that one small boy should set
The sky on fire and choke the stars to heat
Such skinny limbs and such a little heart
Which would have been content with one warm kiss
Had there been anyone to offer this. — Vernon Scannell

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. — Linda M. Godwin

But telling a giraffe killer that I need someone is not an option. — Nikki Godwin

You make me want things I can't have." I — Pam Godwin

He was once a captive in her attic. Now she was the one held captive, enraptured by his unwavering trust. — Pam Godwin

When you're too old to get it up, I'll still love you. He — Pam Godwin

What do you say? A date with Laz Bromwell? Since your married, I'll do you both." He shrugged. "I'm magnanimous like that. — Pam Godwin

Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment ... — Parke Godwin

Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs. — Pam Godwin

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides. — William Godwin

The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself. — Joscelyn Godwin

For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them? — Parke Godwin

Are you happy?"
Same question he asked me every day, and I always gave the same honest answer. "You are my happiness. — Pam Godwin

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin. — William Godwin

You're lying, Beverly. I think you want to hear all the dirty details of my indiscretions. Shall I describe the positions that were used, the sounds she made, the size of my cock - ?" "Stop! — Pam Godwin

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. — Gail Godwin

You couldn't form the rainbow without the broken pieces of each color. — Nikki Godwin

I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust. — Mike Godwin

A man like that fucks like he rides. With intimidation, recklessness, and unharnessed energy. He's powered by adrenaline and takes what he wants without care. — Pam Godwin

This is real. So real I feel it everywhere, like a million tiny vibrations under my skin. This ... this urgency to protect you ... " My breath burst in and out, and my voice thickened with the messy, unfiltered truth. "It's a crazy need inside me, driving me to be near you, to watch over you, to undo the hurt I put in your eyes. I don't fucking know what it is, but I feel it now, spinning me around - around you - and knocking me way the fuck off track. — Pam Godwin

Her feistiness might be my fuel, but her obedience is my fucking fire. Without — Pam Godwin

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion. — William Godwin

He's the only living form of love I have left to wrap my arms around. Or — Pam Godwin

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. — William Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. — Fay Godwin

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin

I miss my girl already. See you soon firefly — Nikki Godwin

You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark. — Pam Godwin

When I was in seminary," Father Edward had told other guests around the table when he was purchasing his books, "my spiritual director told me not to read theology. 'Read novels,' he said, and I have. — Gail Godwin

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. — William Godwin