Charles Capps (Charles Emmitt Capps) Quotes

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Charles Capps

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• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Complicated

• I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Yelling

• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Right
  • Mother`s

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

  

  LeBron James
  • Identity
  • Basketball
  • Superhero

• Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • High
  • Future
  • Technology

• Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

  

  Andrew Oliver
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• 'I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.'

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Money
  • Account
  • Spare

• When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

  

  Missy Elliott
  • People
  • Looking
  • Bigger

• I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Words

• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

  

  Charles Capps
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Fear