Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
Marya Mannes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
Truth
Speaks
Firsts
Fellows
First
Clean
Make
Christianity
Perverts
Men
Public
Cheats
Faith
Bomb
Christian
Cheat
Speak
Bombs
More quotes by Marya Mannes
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
Marya Mannes
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Marya Mannes
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.
Marya Mannes
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
Marya Mannes
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
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
Marya Mannes
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
Marya Mannes
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Marya Mannes
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
Marya Mannes
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
Marya Mannes
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
Marya Mannes
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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 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.
Marya Mannes
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
Marya Mannes
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
Marya Mannes
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
Marya Mannes
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
Marya Mannes
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
Marya Mannes
