#germans

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not. ↗

— Ouida

#nature #subjectivity #life

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#essential #germans #hateful #hot #job

What's it like?" "Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans. ↗

— Rob Grant

#germans #humor #red-dwarf #death

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#end #enough #germans #got #hard

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

#choosing #direction #funny #funny people #germans

I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things as poor diet, and alcohol. ↗

— Roman Payne

#au-pair #diet #germans #humor #humour

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#jews #nazi #world-war #uncertainty