Quotes about Execution

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Britain continued to use the terms and the symbols of its religion and would never make a vulgar Gallic show of executing clerics, but it would reject real religion nonetheless.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

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.

The power of the croisé, or the cross, comes from leverage. When executed with proper form and employed without hesitation, the opponent runs upon your blade. This is not a move that requires a heavy hand; in fact, it is best done with the gentlest of touches.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.