Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Desiderius Erasmus

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• Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Love
  • Love Is

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • School
  • Promise

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

  

  Halima Aden
  • History
  • Think
  • Oppression

• I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Small
  • Me
  • Best

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • You
  • Try

• I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Change
  • Fashion

• Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Great
  • Girl

• The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • People
  • War
  • Feeling

• When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The beauty of life is not knowing.

  

  Matisyahu
  • Beauty
  • Knowing

• It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus