Historically Quotes

299 Historically quotes by 276 unique authors

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites… — Bill Gates
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later… — John Trudell
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt… — Jim Cramer
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in… — Henry A. Kissinger
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals… — Calvin Coolidge
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
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 ‘god’ 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

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