Jo Godwin Quotes

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

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

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

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

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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

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.

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

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

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

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

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

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

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

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.

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.

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.

Power is not happiness.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

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.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

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.

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