274 Quotes About Germany
- Author Edmund Ironside
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I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
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- Author Constance Savery
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Hadn't we better turn it lower?" Tony whispered."Eh, what? It's quiet enough, I think."Tony flung a hunted glance at the window. "You have let me listen in to Germany. If the police find out, there will be great trouble -""There won't be any trouble at all," said Thomas. "You're in England, remember. You're free to tune in to any station you please.
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- Author Harlan Coben
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Newark, New Jersey. The bad part. Almost a redundancy.Decay was the first word that came to mind. The buildings were more than falling apart - they actually seemed to be breaking down, melting from some sort of acid onslaught. Here urban renewal was about as familiar a concept as time travel. The surroundings looked more like a war newsreel - Frankfurt after the Allies' bombing - than a habitable dwelling.
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- Author John F. Kennedy
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O God, Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small
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- Author Bernhard Schlink
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Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi situaciju, a ne stoga što je otežavamo?
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- Author Willy Brandt
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Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört.“("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.")Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]
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- Author Willy Brandt
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[I]ch habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen." ("I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: Berlin will live, and the Wall will come down.")Speech at Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin City Hall) on November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]
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- Author M.B. Dallocchio
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Matansa. It means massacre in the Chamorro language, and is a nickname for the village of San Roque in the northern part of the island of Saipan that endured the most brutal slaughtering as a punishment for Chamorro resistance by Imperial Japan in WWII, which was part of an ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign that almost completely wiped out the Chamorro population from the face of the earth. San Roque is my family’s village.
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- Author Ingeborg Bachmann
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The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, Vogue was extremely rare; who wanted to read German magazines, anyway? Twin Murders in Stuttgart. Certainly an awful place, it even sounded like murder. Sex in Germany. That was probably even worse.
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