Quotes About Relevance

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

History has been called "an abyss in which Christianity has been swallowed up quite against its will." How

We cannot therefore speak of a Pauline theology as an abstract, theoretical, speculative system; but we can recognize a Pauline theology as an interpretation of the meaning of the person and work of Christ in its practical relevance for Christian life, both individual and collective.

the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.

Thomas Hobbes called. He wants his thesis back.

Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.

He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.

Toat? marea literatur? are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.