Quotes About Execution

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business.

There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

BED. Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will go up a ladder to bed, i.e. you will be hanged.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

We develop a plan and put a hierarchy in place to manage its execution, which allows us to lay a railroad track across the country or build a huge cathedral that takes generations to complete.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

From word to deed is a great space.

Dann waren Sie der Richter, und ich der Henker.

We need both heart and mind," Lirin said. "The heart might provide the purpose, but the head provides the method, the path. Passion is nothing without a plan. Wanting something doesn't make it happen.

Lem nodded. "It is. But a terrible idea executed brilliantly has to be better than a brilliant idea executed terribly. I mean, look at pelicans.

a terrible idea executed brilliantly has to be better than a brilliant idea executed terribly. I mean, look at pelicans.

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

We know how to take an incredibly large task and break it down to manageable pieces, then deal with each of those pieces. We

una idea espantosa ejecutada de forma brillante tiene que ser mejor que una idea brillante ejecutada de forma espantosa.

That's the difference between you and them, Elend, he thought. Those philosophers you read – they were revolutionaries. They were willing to risk execution. You can't even stand up to your father.

Who killed this man [Patrick Sonnier]? Nobody. Everybody can argue that he or she was just doing a job - the governor, the warden, the head of the Department of Corrections, the district attorney, the judge, the jury, the Pardon Board, the witnesses to the execution. Nobody feels personally responsible for the death of this man. (p. 101)

The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-It on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.