Fear of rejection Quote by Alma Brooke

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing…

— Fritz Kreisler

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a…

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby,” I said. “The irony is so great. A…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he…

— Howard Zinn

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a…

— Che Guevara

“I will never understand why a group of police officers act as a firing squad on their victim.”

— Steven Magee

“Gas chamber, gallows. Electric chair, stake, firing squad. Hang by the neck till you’re dead, dead, dead, and may God recycle your soul.”

— John Varley

“On the center island the remaining pans of Swamp Yankee Applesauce Cake batter were lined up like victims about to face a firing squad.”

— Suzanne M. Trauth

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

— David Letterman

“If I were facing a firing squad, I’d ask them to hold on just one second, because I have a wedgie and it is…

— Jarod Kintz