#oda

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

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bad #how #journey #life #life is a

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#christianity #had #i #john #luke

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#bottom line #buy #cared #company #concerns

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#in the past #mankind #means #methods #naive

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#i #make #today #tomorrow

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. ↗

— Al Gore

#education #ever #first #i #increase

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #condition #did #elements #him

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States. ↗

— Bob Graham

#am #anxious #doctors #efficient #four