German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any… — Vladimir Lenin
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in.… — Thomas A. Edison
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other… — Georg Baselitz
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions. — Tim Heidecker
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. — Michael Scott
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit… — Ottmar Edenhofer
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon… — Winston Churchill
I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing… — Winston Churchill
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,… — Winston Churchill
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun. — Vasily Chuikov
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and… — Thomas Friedman
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I… — Janeane Garofalo
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top… — Ann Coulter
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave… — Roald Dahl
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German -… — Marlene Dietrich
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German.… — Kirsten Dunst
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. — George Foreman
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles. — George Foreman
I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what. — Michael Haneke
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. — Martin Heidegger
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing… — Martin Heidegger

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