Executors Quotes

• Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Successful, Exercise, Thinking

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

  Alexander Payne

  Important, Actors, Tone

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• A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
  [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

  George Herbert

  House, Fats, Keepers

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• A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  College, Whales, Yale

  Moby Dick ch. 24 (1851)

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• I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

  Mort Sahl

  Chicago, Want, Buried

  "Political comedy pioneer Mort Sahl coming to Marin" by Stan Sinberg, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2004.

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• Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Half

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.262

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Book, Hands, Generosity

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Artist, Ideas, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 188), 1986.

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• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  October Revolution, Personality, Influential

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• I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

  Vincent Piazza

  Responsibility, Historical, Way

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• A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

  Janet E. Smith

  Rights, Race, Life And Death

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• When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

  John Lyly

  Father, Son, Past

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

  Christopher Galvin

  Jobs, Giving, Credit

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• I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Hate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.109, Delphi Classics

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• This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?

  Herbert Marcuse

  Struggle, Circles, Broken

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 33), 1964.

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