Marya Mannes Quotes
Top 51 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.
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.
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
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.
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.