"Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament,……" — Marya Mannes
"Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave."
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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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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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