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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans. -- Lee Iacocca
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. -- Marlene Dietrich
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. -- John Badham
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! -- John Belushi
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. -- Karl Kraus
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. -- Gary Lineker
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. -- Friedrich Ebert
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail. -- Mark Oliphant
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. -- Manfred von Richthofen
The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity. -- Anthony Lewis
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. -- Bill Toomey
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. -- Gertrude Stein
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. -- Martha Gellhorn
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. -- Gustav Stresemann
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes. -- Evan Davis
We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans. -- Oskar Schindler
The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world. -- Evan Davis
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. -- W. Averell Harriman
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre. -- Antony Beevor
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. -- Jules Verne
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really. -- Viggo Mortensen
Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants. They misbehave, and in this sense we have feelings similar to those that the Germans have toward the Turks and the French toward Algerians. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Germans make nice cars. -- Jason Behr
Frenchman: Germans with good food. -- Fran Lebowitz
God, I hate the Germans... -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Remember not all Germans were Nazis. -- Erin Gruwell
The Germans wit is in his fingers. -- George Herbert
The Germans, a race eager for war. -- Seneca the Younger
The Germans are prisoners of their past. -- Daniel Barenboim
Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! -- Homer
Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange. -- Willa Cather
The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23! -- Kevin Keegan
If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable. -- Stephen Colbert
Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans! -- Scott Steiner
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. -- Otto von Bismarck
Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans. -- Menachem Begin
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. -- Angela Merkel
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. -- Madame de Stael
There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans -- Ellen DeGeneres
We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe. -- Moses Hess
Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans. -- Tupac Shakur
Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had. -- Ernie Pyle
The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn. -- Theodore Beale
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar. -- Oswald Spengler
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people. -- John Lothrop Motley
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. -- Siegfried Sassoon
If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans. -- Alan Shearer
As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu. -- Stephen Colbert
I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more. -- Nancy Wake
That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. -- Israel Shahak
If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. -- Stanley Ralph Ross
We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans -- Adolf Hitler
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans. -- John Prescott
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. -- Anna Funder
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. -- Anton Rubinstein
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? -- Niall Ferguson
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members! -- Adolf Hitler
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. -- Umberto Eco
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. -- Ernst Toller
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass? -- Joseph Stalin
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. -- Gunter Grass
We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war. -- Anastas Mikoyan
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. -- Pietro Badoglio
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist. -- Winston Churchill
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. -- Joan Juliet Buck
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. -- Franz Grillparzer
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. -- Al Murray
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. -- Ben Elton
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans. -- Bill Nighy
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. -- Gustav Stresemann
When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology. -- Eamon
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon. -- Frank Carson
The purpose of the NATO alliance is to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. -- Lord Ismay
France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today. -- Emmanuel Petit
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls! -- Drew Carey
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else -- Will Rogers
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far! -- Charles de Gaulle
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice. -- Adolf Eichmann
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon. -- Theresa May
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists. -- Ernst Zundel
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. -- Mario Monti
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. -- Walter Ulbricht
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans. -- Scott Ritter
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. -- J. G. Ballard
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. -- Albert Einstein
Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought. -- Julius Streicher
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) -- Alan Coren
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. -- Primo Levi
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. -- Rudyard Kipling
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans. -- Tod Machover
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. -- Frederic Chopin
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans. -- Ciro Guerra
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. -- Bertrand Russell
[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans. -- Manfred Rommel
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs. -- Marjane Satrapi
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. -- Donna Leon
I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so. -- Martin Schulz
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest." -- Daniel Bruhl
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest. -- Daniel Bruhl
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace. -- Otto von Bismarck
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. -- Pierre Laval
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! -- Thomas Carlyle
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well. -- Peter Eisenman
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans. -- Hasso Plattner
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it. -- Donna Summer
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over. -- Ryan Holiday
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it. -- John Major
And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman -- David Coleman

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