A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
Joseph Story

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
Joseph Story

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
George Haven Putnam

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
Brent Scowcroft

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Liam Neeson

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
William Hamilton Maxwell

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

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

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
Catherine Crier

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

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank Aaron

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
George Stephenson

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
James Daly

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton