" Writing in 2007, Neil Lewis of The New York Times remarked that, " To this day, each side in the epic he-said, she-said dispute has its unmovable believers ".

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

Writing in the 12th century, Henry of Huntingdon expanded his version of Bede's text to include supernatural intervention and remarked that Penda, in dying violently on the battlefield, was suffering the same fate he had inflicted on others during his aggressive reign.

Writing in the early 20th century, T. E. Lawrence, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, remarked that Krak des Chevaliers was " perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world, castle which forms a fitting commentary on any account of the Crusading buildings of Syria ".

Writing to Arthur Keith in 1927, he remarked "... when our Oligocene ancestor is found it will not be an ape, but it will be surprisingly pro-human ".

Writing in 1972, Nard Jones remarked on the Seattle telephone directory having " three solid columns " of art galleries and dealers, representing " an astonishing variety ".

" Writing about this encounter, Christopher remarked that " McCain still holds many opinions that I find objectionable, but I also think that video places the ' character ' that is RS McCain into a context that simply reading him does not.

Writing in the journal International Socialism, Paul Blackledge remarked that it was " more than a little ironic " that the Miliband brothers were in positions of power in the Labour Party considering that their father was the author of Parliamentary Socialism ( 1961 ), a powerful critique of that party and its policies.

In April 2003, speaking in an interview to a Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, Theo de Raadt remarked on the occupation of Iraq: " I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.