Quotes About Execution

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

You need to break a problem into pieces and do what is scheduled for each time slot

Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.

You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

Don't make hope your business plan. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

To gibbet is to dip a corpse in tar and suspend it in a flat iron cage (the gibbet) in plain view of townsfolk while it rots and gets pecked apart by crows. A stroll through the square must have been a whole different plate of tamales back then.

Double sentencing wasn't a new idea, but rather the latest variation on the theme. Before that, a murderer might be hanged and then drawn and quartered, wherein horses were tied to his limbs and spurred off in four directions, the resultant "quarters" being impaled on spikes and publicly displayed, as a colorful reminder to the citizenry of the ill-advisedness of crime.

The device was named after Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, though he did not invent it. He merely lobbied for its use, on the grounds that the decapitating machine, as he preferred to call it, was an instantaneous, and thus more humane, way to kill.

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?

I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties.

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.

La prima mossa è quasi sempre un trucco, è la seconda la più efficace... l'importante è colpire il bersaglio. 

encourage you to go out and do it because knowledge is useless unless you put it into action.

You are not what you intend, you are what you do. Intention and action are separated by a chasm

If you intend to keep your word, don't talk about it, just do it.

Criminals should not be tried. The trial of a criminal is against human rights. Human rights demand that we should have killed them in the first place when it became known that they were criminals," proclaimed Ayatollah Khomeini, responding to protests by international human rights organizations of the wave of executions that followed the revolution.

They had not become part of the crowd who watched the executions, but they did not have the power to protest them, either. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

That's genius, you see. The masterstroke that no one recognises until it's been pulled off.

And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to require it to resemble the viscous substance of truth.

The Apology of Socrates was Plato's account of the legal defense that Socrates made at his trial in Athens. The speech itself is one of the great classics of ancient literature. They executed him anyway.