"It is privilege of living to be acutely,……" — Marya Mannes
"It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing."
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51 Quotes by Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes has 51 quotes on this site.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he…
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we…
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to…
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It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous…
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting…
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Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty…
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages…
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women…
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,…
— A. C. Benson
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still…
— Agatha Christie
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the…
— Chris Christie
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
— P.J. O'Rourke
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
— Thomas Reid
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
— Elie Wiesel
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
— William E. Simon
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
— Patrick Warburton
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
— Walter Lippmann
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
— Jean Toomer
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
— Yukio Mishima
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
— James Payn
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