Quote

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

Marya Mannes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
Omitting
Proper
Aids
Gratitude
Attitude

More quotes by Marya Mannes

Image
The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
Marya Mannes
Image
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.
Marya Mannes
Image
television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.
Marya Mannes
Image
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
Marya Mannes
Image
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
Marya Mannes
Image
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
Marya Mannes
Image
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
Marya Mannes
Image
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
Marya Mannes
Image
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.
Marya Mannes
Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Marya Mannes
Image
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
Marya Mannes
Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Marya Mannes
Image
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
Image
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
Marya Mannes
Image
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
Image
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
Marya Mannes
Image
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
Marya Mannes
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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