Joan M. Drury quotes

“I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.”
-- Joan M. Drury

Source : Joan M. Drury (1996). “Silent Words”, Spinsters Ink Books

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“When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.”
-- Joan M. Drury

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“Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.”
-- Joan M. Drury

Source : Joan M. Drury (2000). “Those Jordan Girls”, Spinsters Ink Books

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“The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.”
-- Joan M. Drury

#Writing Quotes #Century Quotes #Reaching Quotes

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.”

“An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

“No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.”

“Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.”

“I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.”

“Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”