Executed Quotes
176 quotes by 162 authors
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Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and…
— Charles Babbage
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The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can…
— August Bournonville
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.
— Gerard Butler
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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…
— Charlene, Princess of Monaco
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Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or…
— Lysander Spooner
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control…
— Jack Davenport
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Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to…
— Charles Duhigg
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Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.
— Claire McCaskill
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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,…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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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…
— John Hawkins
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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…
— William Hull
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
— F. H. Bradley
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Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a…
— Franco Harris
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I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
— William Hurt
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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…
— Adam Weishaupt
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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…
— Robert Capa
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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…
— John Howard
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Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.
— John Simon
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Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke…
— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
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