117 Quotes by Marya Mannes

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

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.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

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

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

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.