#ward

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#been #comparatively #countries #crowded #east

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do. ↗

— Selena Gomez

#awkward #dates #get #i #know

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#awards #glorify #just #most #mtv

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #being #best #day #definition

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#book #bought #i #new #off

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#am #amount #behavior #commerce #company

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#execute #feel #form #great #great reward

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#forward #general #i #identity #mean