Daniel Mainwaring quotes

“All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

Source : "Fictional character: Eels". "Out of the Past", 1947.

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“Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

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“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

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“I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

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“You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

Source : "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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“Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.”
-- Daniel Mainwaring

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman". "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.”

“The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.”

“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”

“Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.”

“I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.”