All Quotes

Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
‐‐ Lara St. John

Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.
‐‐ Jens Nordvig

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 scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
‐‐ Bob Packwood

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
‐‐ Hu Shih

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
‐‐ Jim Rogers

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.
‐‐ Franz von Holzhausen

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.
‐‐ James O'Shaughnessy

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.
‐‐ Mike Pompeo

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.
‐‐ Najib Mikati

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 go to Paris!'
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

History, a distillation of rumour.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
‐‐ Tony Judt

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
‐‐ Anatole France

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

History can never be covered up.
‐‐ Zhu Rongji

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
‐‐ Tony Judt

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
‐‐ Nancy Horan

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
‐‐ Eldridge Cleaver

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
‐‐ Frank Gaffney

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

History develops, art stands still.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
‐‐ David Ebershoff

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
‐‐ Karl Marx

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
‐‐ Simon Schama