Albert Pierrepoint Quotes

The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

Albert Pierrepoint

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I just lost interest in performing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Lost
  • Interest
  • Just

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Trying
  • Dog
  • Wave

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Help
  • Scholars

• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • House
  • Football
  • Fans

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dark

• If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life

• One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• This young fella was suppose to be playing his first ever U.S. show in Boston in a few weeks followed by a U.S. tour with us. We are so bummed this wont be happening but excited that his record is out today.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Show
  • Record
  • Excited

• Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

  

  George Arnold
  • Death

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • First
  • Analysis
  • Structural

• The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

  

  Albert Pierrepoint
  • Death
  • Wanted
  • Get Off