The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
