Top 340 Executed Quotes & Sayings

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

You will be excellently executed.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

To me, the best of 'Jack' is when we have a very good, but small idea, executed to the nines.

I watched the footage of Saddam being executed, and it really made me think...is there nothing on the internet that I won't masturbate to?

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 pretended to equal.

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

A good decision executed quickly is better than a great one never executed.

I was glad when the invalids were executed

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.