Execution Quote by Loren D. Estleman Download Open image ““An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.”” — Loren D. Estleman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Execution Secrecy
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“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Within the upper echelons of the agency, The Purge had been felt a necessary emergency measure: better to remain a stripped-down core than be… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.” — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control. — N. Robert Hammer Copy Share Image
“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.” — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“Now came details of Goldby's adventures with the Cooks and their band. "Chicken, Dynamite Dick, The Verdigris Kid. I wish these fellows read something… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me. — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“Early on as news of the sextuple execution in Fort Smith spread, rooted itself in the umber soil of the western Indian Nations, and… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
“Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth page, Young… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market.… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
