“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
"Is Christianity the Problem?", debate with Dinesh D'Souza, 22/10/2007. <br class="br">2000s, 2007 <br class="br">Context: Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeHsCPayXM?t=37m36s
“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Michael Swanwick book The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Source: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Worship: The Missing Jewel as quoted in Vernon K. McLellan (2000), Twentieth century thoughts that shaped the church p. 265.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
As quoted in Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1969) by Frederic May Holland, p. 212 http://books.google.it/books?id=GLbBa5OOhxMC&pg=PA212
“Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Response when Harvey W. Wiley opposed the the of saccharin because it is injurious to health, as quoted in The History of a Crime Against the Food Law (1929) by Harvey W. Wiley
1900s
Context: You tell me that saccharin is injurious to health? Dr. Rixey gives it to me every day. Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot.
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Freedom From Religion Foundation, 21/10/2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WByhz44EA&t=4m25s <br class="br">2000s, 2007
“As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: Clariel