Eliza Harris Quotes & Sayings

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Both scepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to be a principal goal of public education. I'd love to see such a domestic felicity portrayed in the media, television especially: a community of people really working the mix - full of wonder, generously open to every notion, dismissing nothing except for good reason, but at the same time, and as second nature, demanding stringent standards of evidence; and these standards applied with at least as much rigour to what they hold dear as to what they are tempted to reject with impunity. — Carl Sagan

Someone pried open his eyelid and rudely flashed a light in his eye that made his headache pound even harder. Groaning, he flinched, moving his head away. Gently, the doctor turned his head back and held it in place while he continued to test the dilation of his eye. Good thing Caillen's arms were strapped down or the man would be bleeding over the intrusion and that light would be shining out of an orifice the gods had never meant to hold it. "He's — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence. — Nick Bantock

And become so open minded my brain falls out? Make so many excuses for people's bad behavior that I become spineless? No thanks. I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake. I will not make excuses for all the ways they treat the people around them like garbage. — Penny Reid

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. — Edward Weston

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter. — Elizabeth Goudge

I need a minute to think, she said. I automatically started the timer on my watch. Suddenly Rosie started laughing. — Graeme Simsion

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator. — Ronald Reagan

Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it. — Adel Sakura

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line."
He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak."
"If by 'devastating' you mean that you should fear for your life, then yeah. You're right." I jerked open the door. "Good night, Adrian."
"I'll see you soon."
"Not likely. I told you, I'm not into older guys."
I walked into the lodge. As the door closed, I just barely heard him call behind me, "Sure, you aren't. — Richelle Mead

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. — Marcus Aurelius