Geoff Capes Quotes

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• Most men are fragile.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Men
  • Most
  • Fragile

• I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Working Hard

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Why
  • Discipline
  • Will

• That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Medals

• I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Problems
  • News
  • Move

• Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Play
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Looks
  • More

• In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Day
  • Week

• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • You
  • Powerful

• Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Character
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Mysterious

• I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

  

  Allen West
  • Good
  • Important
  • Black

• The kitchen is the heart of the house.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Heart
  • House
  • Kitchen

• I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in an enormous red house and being the son of a millionaire best-selling writer. I mean, I actually had a strangely normal childhood despite all that.

  

  Owen King
  • House
  • Son
  • Childhood

• There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Political
  • Problems
  • Economic

• I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

  

  Geoff Capes
  • House
  • Firsts
  • Made