Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

• War
• Peace

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • World
  • Know
  • Place

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Men
  • Way
  • Popular

• I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Seriously
  • Stardom

• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  

  Artur Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Joy
  • Purpose

• I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I know that I'm gonna be like this forever I'm never gonna be what I should And you think that I'll be bad for just a little while But I know that I'll be bad for good.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Forever

• The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • War
  • Peace