Historically Quotes

299 Historically quotes by 276 unique authors

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not… — Lev Grossman
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. — Stephen Covey
The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans. — Jim Cramer
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is… — Michael Crichton
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and… — Evan Davis
Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done… — Junot Diaz
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are… — Freeman Dyson
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,… — Sylvia Earle
Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll… — Craig Ferguson
Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my… — Mohsin Hamid
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the… — Hugh Hefner
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. — Martin Heidegger
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity,… — Christopher Hitchens
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us. — Steve Irwin
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. — Peter Jennings
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not… — Billy Joel
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans. — Billy Joel
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,… — John F. Kennedy
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going… — Ed Koch
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut. — Artie Lange
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. — James Madison
If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In… — John Major
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws… — Karl Marx
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. — Arthur Middleton
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. — David Mitchell

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