Quotes About Execution

Daring in design, cautious in execution—it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.

Of the British prime minister, Lord North, he wrote with exceptional acuity: The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible…. In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty…. To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

Mary Surratt, who ran a boardinghouse where Booth colluded with other conspirators, went down in historical annals as the first woman ever executed by the federal government.

After a farcical trial for treason Clarence was executed in the Tower. The hard-drinking king may have thought the method a kindly one – he had Clarence drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine.5

The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

Plato writes as if the Athenian democracy had not carried out Socrates' execution, and Socrates speaks as if the Athenian democracy had not engaged in an orgy of bloody persecution of guilty and innocent alike when the Hermes statues were mutilated at the beginning of the Sicilian expedition.

Caroline are definitely the people to carry it out." Men of ambition understood men of ambition

the destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Death was something inevitable and even unimportant, of which it was not worth while to think; but for a man in prison, before his execution, to be left without tobacco—that was altogether unbearable.

It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it muttering to itself, The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder? Alice

All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.