Karl Marx Quotes

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Day
  • First
  • Before

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Men
  • History
  • Destiny

• I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Good
  • Know
  • Player

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
  • History
  • Man
  • Challenge

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • See
  • First
  • Lady

• I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Guy
  • Team
  • First

• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • History
  • Spanish
  • France

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Look
  • Act

• I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Great
  • House
  • Brother

• Ru Paul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Show
  • Details

• Be the poor silly ass And you'll always travel first class. Give 'em quips, give 'em fun, And they'll pay to say you're A–1. If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck. If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck. But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck. Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Fun
  • Travel
  • Luck

• I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Life

• Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Golf
  • Horror
  • Gardens

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy