(1881 quotes found)
“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy”
Richard Bach
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
Ansel Adams
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.”
Dave Barry
“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.”
Albert Bandura
“There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them”
Mark Twain
“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.”
Graham Greene
“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them”
George Savile