Difficult Quote by Seamus Heaney

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that…

— Seamus Heaney

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

— Iris Chang

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

— Claude Vorilhon

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

— Anonymous

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is history. What is done is done.

— Sister Souljah