Albert Pierrepoint Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.

Albert Pierrepoint

• Responsibility
• Revenge
• Executions

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• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Always
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • You
  • Last
  • Predict

• I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Good
  • Yoga
  • Legs

• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Work
  • She
  • Beautiful

• James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wrong

• I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Respect
  • Singers
  • Even

• My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Men
  • Me
  • Army

• It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Morning
  • Matter
  • Birds

• I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Day
  • Thought

• A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Earth

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Great

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May
  • Friends
  • Happy

• I don't like youBut I love you.See that I'm alwaysThinking of you.Oh, oh, oh,You treat me badly;I love you madly.You've really got a hold on me.You've really got a hold on me, baby.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Baby

• My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • World
  • February

• I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

  

  Bob Diamond
  • Up
  • Smile

• Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Brother

• I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Character
  • Judge

• I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.

  

  Albert Pierrepoint
  • Responsibility
  • Revenge
  • Executions