German Quotes
652 German quotes by 461 unique authors
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If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly…
— Mario Draghi
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
— Ken Follett
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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time,…
— Erwin Chargaff
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I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
— Oscar Wilde
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The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing…
— Richard Dooling
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
— Hans Frank
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
— Hans Frank
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You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish,…
— Isla Fisher
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But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell…
— Helmut Jahn
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
— Bette Midler
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I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I…
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
— Thomas Kretschmann
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I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties…
— Adolf Hitler
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Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made…
— Charlie Chaplin
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My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
— Eugen Kogon
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I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that…
— John Diefenbaker
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What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked…
— Martin Niemoller
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The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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