#execution

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. ↗

— Jay Leno

#begins #believes #bush #cell #cell research

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#execution #first-line #first-lines #first-sentence #frederick-forsyth

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block. ↗

— W.S. Gilbert

#life

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#fleeing #self-defense #shoot #someone #who

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. ↗

— Chanakya

#carry #council #determined #doing #execution