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Gilbert Parker Quotes

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: November 23, 1862 - September 6, 1932

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War Gentle Cruelty Make None

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

Money Help You Party Place Election

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

Women Live Woman World Believe You

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Myself Fight Group Run Head

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Shirley Williams

Doing Nothing Anything Greater Does

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Man Parents Values Hold Been Dear

Most conservatives choose God. The tree huggers choose weather, or preventing weather.

God Tree Weather Choose Most

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.

Hope Myself Think Push You Find

Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.

Education Good More Collective NGOs

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

Doing You Want Entertainment Leave

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Short Mystery You Powerful Situation

My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

Success Heart Loved True Fan WNBA

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

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