John Keble book The Christian Year
The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
From the song "Draper" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)
John Keble book The Christian Year
The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
"Voters will remember disaster response, Hitchens says" http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2005/s1453763.htm, Lateline interview with Tony Jones, Australian Broadcasting Corporation {2005-09-05): On the 2003 invasion of Iraq <br class="br">2000s, 2005
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Speech at the First World Congress on Literacy (2 February 2005) paraphrasing a line in John Milton's Paradise Lost; quoted in Granma
“One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Misquote of the lines "Theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die" from The Charge of the Light Brigade
Misattributed
“there was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Illusion
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
1 March 1834.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Context: I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. A person who should suppose I meant by that word, an arguer, would not only not understand me, but would understand the contrary of my meaning. I can take no interest whatever in hearing or saying any thing merely as a fact — merely as having happened. It must refer to something within me before I can regard it with any curiosity or care. My mind is always energic — I don't mean energetic; I require in every thing what, for lack of another word, I may call propriety, — that is, a reason why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time.