Execution Quotes - Page 19

• As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

  Shane Carruth

  Sound, Want, Way

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• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  James G. Frazer

  Sacrifice, Criminals, Doe

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place.

  Rick Remender

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

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• If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Creativity, Inspire, Risk

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2012

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Passion, Black And White

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• Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

  Pete Cashmore

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Ignorance, People

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

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• No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Law, Government, Citizens

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.214, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Long, Balance, Seeing

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• Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

  John Dewey

  Dream, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.294, SIU Press

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• While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

  Sam Sifton

  Sports, Winter, Games

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

  Herman Wouk

  Finding Yourself, Navy, Genius

  Herman Wouk (1980). “The Caine mutiny”, Pocket

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• Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,
  Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned,
  Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure,
  Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure,
  Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and
  Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mean, Order, Class

  Louis Agassiz (1857). “Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: pt. I. Essay on classification. pt. II. North American Testudinata. 1857”, p.170

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• Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Ideas, Innovation, Generations

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• I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

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• Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Cheer, Crowds, Want

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Style

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?

  James Madison

  Country, Communication, Exercise

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.574

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• We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

  Martin Amis

  Country, Texas, Oil

  "Palace of the end" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

  George Washington

  Easy, Should, All Things

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

  Aristid Lindenmayer

  Science, Eggs, Tasks

  Aristid Lindenmayer, Grzegorz Rozenberg (1976). “Automata, languages, development”, North-Holland

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• Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

  Bill Cosby

  Two, People, Laughing

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• The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

  John Dewey

  Democratic Ideals, May, Tragic

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

  Learned Hand

  Passion, Men, Law

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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