“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.”
“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
“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“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”
Marya Mannes“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”
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 curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”
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“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“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).”
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