Historically Quotes

299 quotes by 276 authors

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. — Jim Rogers
My proposal is not that we understand what the word â€˜godâ€™ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we… — N. T. Wright
Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant… — Alan Greenspan
I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for. — Bill Hicks
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have — Gavin Newsom
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected,… — Marvin Olasky
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. — Aristide Briand
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across… — Loren Eiseley
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist… — Katherine Dunn
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its… — Gianni Vattimo
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work… — Martin Fleischmann
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. — Aldrich Ames
Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000. — Trevor Brooking
Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other… — Sue Kelly
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country. — Ric Keller
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized… — Gregg Easterbrook
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can… — Stanley Fish

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