Quotes About Relevance

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

wake up who cares about little boys that talk too much

And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

God doesn't put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

De l'única cosa de què podem estar segurs és que el temps existeix, sí o no? Perquè va desapareixent. I una cosa que no existeix no desapareix.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

Don't assume that it's too late to get involved

Now it was gone. And as the strike continued—the first day, the second day, the third day—there were worried phone calls and rumors that this could go on for months. Everything I had known was upside down. There were sporting events each night that I would have gone to cover. Instead, I stayed home, watched them on TV. I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me.

He was intent on proving that the word dying was not synonymous with useless.

Don't assume it is too late to get involved.

Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is "history everyone already knows."2 As such, history becomes nothing but a tool of the present, with no integrity whatsoever of its own.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you—an American—will agree, it is the thrust of one's narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one's details.

One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While

Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

RULE 5. FIND THE IMPORTANT WORDS AND THROUGH THEM COME TO TERMS WITH THE AUTHOR.

STEP 1 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: FINDING THE RELEVANT PASSAGES

The events of one's life take place, take place. How often have I used this expression, and how often have I stopped to think about what it means? Events do indeed take place, they have meaning in relation to things around them.

We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader)

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?