You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. Marya Mannes More Quotes by Marya Mannes More Quotes From Marya Mannes It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. Marya Mannes privilegeawarenessmoments 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. Marya Mannes heartmenwar 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. Marya Mannes sarcasticbusinessresponsibility 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 sisterhoodmoneyloss Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. Marya Mannes arrogancesuccessfuluse 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. Marya Mannes discoverymenart 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. Marya Mannes equalityracismwhite 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. Marya Mannes great-musicinfinitegrace 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? Marya Mannes husbandnamesmen One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love. Marya Mannes forgivenesspoor All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street. Marya Mannes voicenew-yorkmen To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. Marya Mannes ethicsmoralityindifference The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. Marya Mannes libertymoneymatter In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last. Marya Mannes greedracemen fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless. Marya Mannes bogssuperstitionsfear 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. Marya Mannes datinggameslove-is flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire. Marya Mannes firemensex A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. Marya Mannes syntaxlanguageoffice the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making Marya Mannes carracepeople The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. Marya Mannes hold-menextlasts
