Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Desiderius Erasmus

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• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Media
  • Maybe
  • Divided

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Important
  • Why
  • Think

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Acting

• I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • House
  • First
  • Club

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Life
  • Women
  • Single

• This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Played
  • Atmosphere
  • Teams

• Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cure
  • Ill
  • Ruins

• My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • She
  • Me
  • Play

• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Innocent

• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Running