Executions By State Quotes & Sayings

Be an aggregator, not an aggravator. — Robert J. Braathe

The town had a faint air of benign neglect that only added to its charm: a seaside village with white clapboard buildings, seagulls wheeling overhead, uneven brick sidewalks and local shops. They passed a gas station, several old storefronts with plate-glass windows, a diner, a funeral parlor, a movie theater turned into a bookstore, and an eighteenth-century sea captain's mansion, complete with widow's walk. A sign out front identified it as the Exmouth Historical Society and Museum. — Douglas Preston

Regret is like a mental parasite that alters your behavior. — Peter Tieryas

I don't want to not be important. — Irving Azoff

On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing various 'mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive' at the hands of the Islamic State. — Jonah Goldberg

On average, around 500,000 people die on the planet every year as a result of intentional violence and homicide. These acts span domestic violence, war, terrorism, infanticide, gang violence, honor killings and state executions. Many of these deaths pass relatively unnoticed while some attract attention. — Chris Rhyss Edwards

An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body." Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety. — Edmund J. Bourne

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years. — Kenneth Fisher

All in all, the purification of the armed forces, state institutions, and the communist party led to about fifty thousand executions. — Timothy Snyder

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either. — Bill Cosby

The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art. — Vladimir Nabokov

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness - and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause. — Sydney J. Harris

As the days went by, I began to see this girl I had married was even more than I had suspected and in every way. — Louis L'Amour