Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Marya Mannes
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Marya Mannes.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
You cannot know what you do not feel.
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
Infants are interesting only to their parents.
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.
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