Quotes About Execution

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

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

Money is for making things happen.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Ideas don't make money, effort does.

Knowledge without action cost money

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

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.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.