Quotes About Relevance

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

Quality is value to some person.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age, particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience, what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

If Noah found himself back on Earth, you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

A word spoken in good season, how good it is!

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

The memories of events and statesmen paled as the years passed. Dust covered them, mud stained them, until they were finally erased as if they had never been. But recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.