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Such is Life [Executed by hanging.] -- Ned Kelly
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. -- Peter Steele
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. -- Joan Miro
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. -- George S. Patton
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. -- Adam Weishaupt
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. -- John Hawkins
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. -- Joseph Story
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? -- James Madison
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. -- Thomas Reid
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. -- Joshua Chamberlain
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted. -- Lysander Spooner
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -- George Washington
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. -- Peter Benenson
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison. -- Maajid Nawaz
Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it. -- Julia Roberts
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. -- Huey Newton
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. -- William Hull
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. -- Richard Dawkins
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. -- Robert Capa
Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show. -- James Burrows
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class. -- Dan Wheldon
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds. -- ASAP Rocky
You will be excellently executed. -- Bret Hart
An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. -- Richard Schmid
I was glad when the invalids were executed -- Lauren Oliver
Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it. -- Gerard Butler
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed. -- Joseph Addison
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. -- Alexander Pushkin
I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. -- Kinky Friedman
Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively. -- Robert S. Kaplan
Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, -- Charles Babbage
Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? -- Woody Allen
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. -- Paul Arden
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively. -- LeBron James
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed. -- C. S. Lewis
Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration. -- lecrae
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. -- Charles Caleb Colton
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. -- George Carlin
A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten. -- Andy Borowitz
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. -- Irving Kaufman
Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. -- Morris Kline
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. -- Steve Jobs
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. -- Alfred de Vigny
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Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress. -- Archibald Marwizi
Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female. -- John Simon
Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. -- Penelope Trunk
For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed... -- Kathleen Parker
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States. -- Ferdinand Lundberg
Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly. -- Claire McCaskill
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all. -- Peter Drucker
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again. -- Bill McCollum
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. -- Sara Genn
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. -- William Hurt
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. -- Edward Abbey
Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. -- Andrea Dworkin
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future. -- George S. Patton Jr.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed. -- Otto von Bismarck
The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. -- Jeremiah
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After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery. -- Diet Eman
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. -- Thomas More
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity. -- Peter Drucker
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. -- Edward James Olmos
This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. -- George Galloway
In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed. -- Steven Knight
One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed. -- Bruce Hoffman
France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq? -- Bill Maher
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. -- Irving Stone
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste. -- Gwynne Shotwell
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent. -- Joan Fontaine
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise. -- James Wolfe
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. -- Joshua Reynolds
No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed. -- Chuck Grassley
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I watched the footage of Saddam being executed, and it really made me think...is there nothing on the internet that I won't masturbate to? -- Frankie Boyle
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view. -- Norman Lamm
Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities. -- George Papandreou
I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. -- James Beard
Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one. -- Hiroshi Ishizaki
The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design. -- Vera Wang
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. -- John Howard
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous. -- Michael Schudson
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue. -- Michael Connelly
Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled. -- Henry D. Moyle
Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed. -- Stephen Covey
I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors. -- Justin Kirk
The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed. -- Edsger Dijkstra
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets. -- Edith Wharton
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. -- Jimmy Carter
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Frederick Forsyth
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience. -- Anthony Davis
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner -- H. L. Mencken
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man. -- Alfred Smee
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind. -- Adolf Hitler
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words. -- Thomas Moore
The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed. -- David Letterman
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation. -- Satish Kumar
I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do. -- Susan Rice
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators. -- Dorothy L. Sayers

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