Marya Mannes quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Marya Mannes has a lot to say. In this list we present the 18 best Marya Mannes quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Marya Mannes quotes
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 along the map turn red.
— Marya Mannes
One is as one is and the love that can’t encompass both is a poor sort of love.
— Marya Mannes
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
— Marya Mannes
It’s never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.
— Marya Mannes
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
— Marya Mannes
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
— Marya Mannes
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
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).
— Marya Mannes
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.
— Marya Mannes
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
— Marya Mannes
It is privilege of living to be … acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
— Marya Mannes
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
— Marya Mannes
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.
— Marya Mannes
It’s never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
— Marya Mannes
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
— Marya Mannes
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.
— Marya Mannes
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.
— Marya Mannes
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