Execution Quotes - Page 11

• Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

  Richard Dawkins

  Unique, Data, Forever

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• Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Power, Expression, Relation

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1806, Leo Tolstoy

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• We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Men, Principles

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• The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

  Steve Ballmer

  Rocks, Way, Strategy

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• I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Party, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600] The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war. The trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder [no. 1-30”, p.177

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• The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Witty, Style, Doe

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3363, Delphi Classics

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• The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Virginia, Office

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• My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

  James Boswell

  Death, Strong, Tree

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• Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

  Eric Baum

  Science, Computer, Mathematics

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• Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

  Eric Baum

  Science, World, Dynamics

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• The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Singleness Of Purpose, Quality, Fundamentals

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• It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

  Mark Cuban

  Dream

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.102, Diversion Books

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Games, Loving Nature

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

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• I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Moon, Self

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

  Marie Lu

  Thank You, Kindness, Dying

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• So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Taken, Reality, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3487, Delphi Classics

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• Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

  Andre Tchaikowsky

  Inspiration, Lazy People, Innovation

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• Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

  Richard Bach

  Crazy, Remember Where You Came, Laughing

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'
  Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Expression

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 31, 1813.

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• Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

  Ramsey Clark

  Violence, Criminals, Doe

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• This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

  Antonin Scalia

  Pain, Causes, Doe

  "Lethal Injection Revisited" by Christopher Brauchli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

  Ralph Nader

  Doe, Cost, Death Penalty

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• She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one—all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever—I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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