Possible Write Quotes by Marya Mannes

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

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

— Marya Mannes

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

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

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

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

— Marya Mannes

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

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

— Marya Mannes

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

— Marya Mannes

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

— 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…

— Marya Mannes

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

— Marya Mannes

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift…

— Marya Mannes

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

— Marya Mannes

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

— Marya Mannes