Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.”
Nastassja Kinski (1961) German actress
On her father after discovering he raped her older sister, as quoted in Malta Biss, Jetzt spricht Nastassja http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/klaus-kinski/jetzt-spricht-nastassja-kinski-ueber-ihren-vater-28071840.bild.htm, Bild, January 13, 2013
“Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Edmund Jenings, 27 September 1782 http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0217, also quoted in John Adams (2008) by David McCullough, p. 272 <br class="br">1780s
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
On winning the Nobel Prize, TIME magazine (16 October 1978)
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
Source: Woman To Woman: Candid Conversations From Me To You
Edward Jenner (1749–1823) English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
The Life of Edward Jenner: With Illustrations of His Doctrines, and Selections from His Correspondence https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=7K9iwCjoUgkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, Vol. 2 (1838), by John Baron, p. 295