300 German Quotes for You to Enjoy

I made a movie in Germany called 'The Chambermaid' - it was very, very small. I think it cost €70,000 to make. I even put some money in and raised some money for it. It was real German arthouse... It goes, somehow, out there on the Internet, and it goes on iTunes. Vicky Krieps

In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity. Vicky Krieps

You Situation Say Tense German Electricity

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. Victoria de los Angeles

Imitation Intimate Independent Put Like Am Tradition Traditions Lot German Very Personal Ladies Mean Aside Copy

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. Victoria de los Angeles

Unless Ancient French Italian German Baroque

Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I'm there. W. G. Sebald

Alienated Feel Although Passport German Very Hold Much

In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form. W. G. Sebald

History People Writing Political First Society Systematic Postwar Writers Acceptable Became Always Years Persecution German The History Of Form Then Incarceration Avoided Preoccupation Whole Groups Extermination

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army. W. G. Sebald

Me Army Father He German Really Away Presence

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold. Walter Gropius

Culture World Old Slow Arrogant Spirit Mentally Empire New Bourgeois Proven His Intellectual Overthrown German Trained Being Midst Incapacity Unimaginative Mold Now Incorrectly

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest. Walter Ulbricht

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. Walter Ulbricht

Meetings Secret Would Federal Generals Knew Between Protest Foreign Passionately West German Planning Population Chancellor

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers. Walter Ulbricht

Government People Secret Secrets Only Like For The People Democratic Policies Democratic Republic Does German Republic Works Keep Need Rejects

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. Wanda Jackson

Song Language Had German Eighteen Titles Number

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. Wang Leehom

Singing Classical Studied Opera French Always Italian German

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. Wendell Willkie

The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. Werner Heisenberg

War Construction Decision Moral About Atomic Atomic Bomb Only Physicists Could Had Clear Knew Make Least Were German Germany Whether Uranium Succeed Them Spared Worked Much Should Engine Manufacture Reason Bomb Bombs

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. Wilhelm Frick

Legal Duty Think Earned Punishment Carried Out Moral Thousands Moral Duty Only Tens Tens Of Thousands Because Been German Imprisoned Officials Duties Dutiful Just Little Fulfillment Who Now

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front. Wilhelm Keitel

People Crime Consideration Soldier Kind German German People Any Front Against

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. William Jennings Bryan

Government Rights Word Will Free Duty Omit States Citizens Imperial Sacred Sacred Duty Performance Maintaining Safeguarding Exercise German Expect Any Act United United States Enjoyment Necessary

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. Willie Geist

Home Mom Me Age Cake Thought Superman Sister Think Sight Kids Had Cakes Reminds Like She Makes Ready Lot Friends German Hit Taste Just Being Where Different Theme Chocolate Then Chocolate Cake Dad

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years. Wim Wenders

As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe. Wolfgang Schauble

Politics Progress First Half Difficult France Berlin More Paris Catastrophe Self-Confident French Make Due German Germany Role Often Century Then Europe Agree Last Last Century

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance. Wolfgang Schauble

First Living Every Spent High Would High Price Higher Price Cheap First Of All Knows Caution German Greece Germany Than Against Paying Standard Who European Second Vacation Assistance

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