Charmien Harker Quotes

#1. John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway.

Bill Bryson

#2. Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.

Jeaniene Frost

#3. I will not move my army until I am absolutely ready.

George B. McClellan

#4. Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

Anna Quindlen

#5. The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Bill Russell

#6. Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Richard Condon

#7. I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

Suheir Hammad