German Quotes

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

My greetings to you, my Germany.