Top 280 Historically Quotes

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
Maajid Nawaz
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
Alan Huffman
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 see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
Stanley Fish
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 groups around the planet.
Katherine Dunn
Lower oil prices won’t, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it’s significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
James Surowiecki
Historically, Democrats have shown they are willing to do just about anything to win elections. Republicans must quit taking the high road and fight back with everything we have.
Charlie Kirk
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
Jim Rogers
Historically almost every team I’ve managed has returned from even just a five-day break with improved physical output.
Sam Allardyce
Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.
John Paulson
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
Bob Packwood
The film world is always looking for great source mater

The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.
Marc Platt
If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.
Candace Owens
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank
The U.S. has historically been the world’s largest contributor to climate change.
Michael Franti
Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
Bill O’Reilly
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
Jurgen Habermas
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we’re coming to the end of world resources.
Jared Diamond
Yes colorism does exist if you look at historically what’s happened as far as crossing over to pop radio.
Mathew Knowles
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves – churches especially so.
Gene Robinson
We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
Safra A. Catz
Donald Trump’s crass charms are apparently very limited – historically so, if polling is any indication.
Tom Steyer
Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
Uday Kotak
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.
James Surowiecki
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
Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.
John Layfield
I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional – if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.
Petra Collins
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.
Sundar Pichai
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
Kuno Becker
We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they’re up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.
S.E. Cupp
Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
Karen O
Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor – they provided such a poor user experience.
Justin Rosenstein
Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.
Steve Hanke
What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It’s a lovely dream, but it’s the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You’d need a lot more than an interview to go into it!
Diane Lane
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
Mercedes Ruehl
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
Jeremy Corbyn
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
Indya Moore
The funny thing about advertising is that it’s not a zero-sum game… Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it’s possible for everyone to win, and it’s perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.
Eric Schmidt
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can’t do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
Joel Salatin
My mother has always rooted for the underdog, so to speak. She has always been in support of uplifting historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people.
Asia Kate Dillon
In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game – I’m not one of them – who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.
Sean Doolittle
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Hi

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
Nicholas Negroponte
I think historically it’s good for younger people to see where so much influence has come from. If you’re using my mother as a role model it gives women permission to be kooky and wonderful and individual and unique and loyal and independent all at the same time.
Nicole Fosse
I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error – doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.
Hugh Ross
Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that’s wrong.
Pete Buttigieg
Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we’ve always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.
Lee Myung-bak
If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.
Joe Thomas
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, to put it simply.
Christopher Hitchens
I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
Maynard Webb
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
To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books – who wouldn’t take that opportunity and be happy about it? I’m happy to be Hodor forever.
Kristian Nairn
If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.
Eric Bischoff
Historically, we’ve attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies – probably since biblical times. It’s a way that patriarchal societies have perpetuated.
Marielle Heller
It’s just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.
Wylie Dufresne
Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.
Katie Pavlich