Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Peter Morgan

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

Menachem Begin

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

The... allegations are wrong in all their details. The (Federal Intelligence Service) BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

That was nice. It was high time for the German insurers to start paying out more to shareholders.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

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.

We can only point out that not only is Germany sad, but there are signs of solidarity from the whole world,

Roland Emmerich

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Hjalmar Schacht

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

Hjalmar Schacht

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

Heidi Klum

I certainly like working in Germany.

E. B. White

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Eduard Shevardnadze

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Our sleds are starting to look like the German sleds. We're heading in the right direction.

Gerhard Schroder

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Jeff Koons

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Franz Grillparzer

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,

Germany Inc. can be chalked up to the past.

Sepp Blatter

German thoroughness will make sure that everything will work at the time of the kickoff. The Germans are not only competent, it's also simple to work with them.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.