It’s so very, very sad because the American people saw an execution, a murder right before our very eyes. It wasn’t self-defense. There has to be justice in that case. – Nancy Pelosi On killing of George Floyd.
And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 7. The ruthless Napoleon, with the help of his dogs, slaughters anyone seen to be disloyal.
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. – George Edmund Street
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. – Hank Aaron
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. – Igor Stravinsky
The Supreme Court of the United States… has validated the Nazi method of execution in… concentration camps, starving them to death. – Jack Kevorkian
It’s about discipline. It’s about following instructions. It’s about the execution of the plan. That’s what sport is. – Ian Millar
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. – Casey Neistat
I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don’t think anybody is going, ‘Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.’ – Bill Lawrence
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. – Barbara Hepworth
There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. – Alan Clark
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes. – Brent Scowcroft
Well, I think on second units it’s all about execution. Because you come in there, you don’t have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that. – David R. Ellis
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used. – Eric Holder
If national safety – the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes – depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless. – Gary Wolf
When we look at investing, we always think about ‘how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.’ E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it’s execution. – Niklas Zennstrom
Processes break in two ways. They break because they don’t have the right checks and balances and because they don’t have the right execution. – Mark V. Hurd
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. – Catherine Crier
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea – or as is so often the case, no idea at all – I don’t give a damn how good the execution is, it’s going to fail. – Morris Hite
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the ‘Twilight Zone,’ the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution. – Josh Trank
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. – Paul Arden
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces. – Richard Dawkins
