Top 100 Godwin Quotes
#1. Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.
John Avlon
#2. [WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? NO, YOU MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MY AMYGDALA. I'M IN CHARGE HERE. NOW TAKE ME BACK TO DR. GODWIN] Damn
R.N. Wright
#3. Mary Jane Clairmont, the second wife of William Godwin, and Mary Shelley's stepmother, had the idea of bringing out French fairy tales for children in an attempt to make some much needed money for the family (she has not been given her due by biographers, in my view).
Marina Warner
#4. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
Ned Rorem
#5. Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.
Frederick Buechner
#6. 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
#7. With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.
Pam Godwin
#11. What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
#13. I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
Linda M. Godwin
#14. I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.
Gail Godwin
#15. How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
Gail Godwin
#17. Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
Jane Godwin
#18. I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
Gail Godwin
#19. Vulnerability has to happen for love to be real.
Pam Godwin
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Why is he doing this? What does he get out of it? Will he expect me to show him my boobs? Give him a blow job? Sex? I
Pam Godwin
#23. Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Gail Godwin
#24. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#25. To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
William Godwin
#26. Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.
Mike Godwin
#27. She was freefalling, riding the wind of his breaths, hoping he'd catch her.
Pam Godwin
#28. So damn beautiful."
She grinned. "So you've said."
Perched on his elbow, stretched alongside her body, he'd say it again and again until she tired of hearing it. "You're beautiful."
"Uh huh."
"So fucking bea-"
"All right, Casanova. Enough!
Pam Godwin
#29. 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
#30. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.
Gail Godwin
#31. Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
William Godwin
#32. 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
#33. I felt gluttonous taking inventory of the men in my life, yet I couldn't ignore the fullness they gave me. Their protection, their devotion, settled deep inside me, taking up space in the lonely places of my heart, making me feel a lot less lonely.
Pam Godwin
#34. At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Gail Godwin
#35. Her voice was the pattering of drizzle on the misty surface, infused with nourishment and despair and acceptance.
Pam Godwin
#36. 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
#37. But telling a giraffe killer that I need someone is not an option.
Nikki Godwin
#38. Well look who it is, Mr. Management-said-we-can't-have-girlfriends...and his girlfirend
Nikki Godwin
#39. Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin
#40. If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
William Godwin
#41. The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
Gail Godwin
#42. The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin
#43. I see all of you. I claim every jagged pieces of you.
Pam Godwin
#44. Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
William Godwin
#45. 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
#46. If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
Mike Godwin
#47. There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
Linda M. Godwin
#48. The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.
Parke Godwin
#49. Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
William Godwin
#50. No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
#51. Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin
#52. Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
William Godwin
#53. In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
Linda M. Godwin
#54. 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
#55. I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
Linda M. Godwin
#56. We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.
Linda M. Godwin
#57. In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed.
Malcolm Godwin
#58. 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
#59. You have the heart one expects to see at the centre of a fire, bending and twisting like steel, but never breaking. If something happens to mine, yours would be stubborn enough to beat for both of us.
Pam Godwin
#60. I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
Fay Godwin
#61. What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
#62. If he peered into her liquid brown eyes, he might've found the cruelest corners of the world there.
Pam Godwin
#63. We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin
#64. But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
William Godwin
#65. Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
Gail Godwin
#66. 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
#67. I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
Fay Godwin
#68. He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
William Godwin
#69. It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
William Godwin
#70. I can't think of it now. It costs too much.
Parke Godwin
#71. Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
William Godwin
#72. One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
#73. If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin
#75. His tongue fucks my mouth the way his cock fills my pussy. Deeply, urgently, and completely unrestrained.
Pam Godwin
#76. I only asked you to move down the couch because I could smell your peach shampoo, and I wanted to be closer.
Nikki Godwin
#77. If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.
William Godwin
#78. See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.
Parke Godwin
#79. People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.
Ted Godwin
#80. Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.
Mike Godwin
#81. Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.
Gail Godwin
#82. 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
#83. The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
Linda M. Godwin
#84. It's okay. It's going to be okay. Were his words for me or himself?
Pam Godwin
#85. I will crawl to you. Bow to you. Whatever you want, I want. Just ... give me this. A
Pam Godwin
#86. My wish is for you to be my firefly," I say. "After lockdown ends, we'll only see each other in moments, for short flickers of time."
"And it'll always make us smile," Milo says.
Nikki Godwin
#87. Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William Godwin
#88. Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.
Parke Godwin
#89. There's two of us and one of him. I'll hold him while you show him how it's going to be."
Yeah, that would win the girl. "This is why I never ask you for advice.
Pam Godwin
#90. I miss my girl already. See you soon firefly
Nikki Godwin
#91. Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs.
Pam Godwin
#92. And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.
Parke Godwin
#93. None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
Gail Godwin
#94. You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Fay Godwin
#95. Are you happy?"
Same question he asked me every day, and I always gave the same honest answer. "You are my happiness.
Pam Godwin
#96. The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin
#97. He wasn't an addict. He was a self-medicating nut job.
Pam Godwin
#99. Remorse went out of fashion around the same time that "Stop feeling guilty," and "You're too hard on yourself," and "You need to love yourself more" came into fashion.
Gail Godwin
#100. At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase--saying that the whole lot represented 'the banality of evil.' Her long ago words applied well to the man before us.
Michael Morton
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