Quotes About Relevance

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Age is a thing about mind over matter: if you don't mind it doesn't matter.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter

I hope it doesn't matter. I have a terrifying feeling that it does.

The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

it didn't really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.

Por qué no puede oírlo el resto del mundo? —me pregunto. En pocos segundos me lo pregunto muchas veces—. Porque no le importa —me respondo al fin, y sé que estoy en lo cierto. Tengo la sensación de haber sido elegido—. Pero ¿elegido para qué? —me pregunto.» La respuesta es simple: «Para que me importe».

I thought you might be too old for such a tale, but maybe no one is.

if it works it's obsolete

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