Quotes About Relevance

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

Not all that is mortal is useless.

the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault. Maybe we made the first mistake.

Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault. Maybe we made the first mistake.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

That's what happens to the old guard, my pup. You can always count on it. We who serve, we who make the world run. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

I am sustained by Being Necessary.

History so often is. Especially when it's not history but is now.

Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)

Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance to them. We

These artists you propose to study, these"—she paused and dropped her voice—"White males. They are not so intéressant, I think. Not so important.

The powers of the world are shifting. Culture is becoming more relevant than politics. Cities more relevant than nations. Continents more relevant than nations. But continents less relevant than cities. Languages more relevant than nations. Languages are alive. Nations are dead. I should not be concerned about what is alive or dead. Yes, I should. I want what is alive - not what is dead - following what is dead delays my path.

Le nostre parole sono spesso prive di significato. Ciò accade perché le abbiamo consumate, estenuate, svuotate con un uso eccessivo e soprattutto inconsapevole. Le abbiamo rese bozzoli vuoti. Per raccontare, dobbiamo rigenerare le nostre parole. Dobbiamo restituire loro senso, consistenza, colore, suono, odore. E per fare questo dobbiamo farle a pezzi e poi ricostruirle.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

With people dying outside on the streets of Dushanbe, studying marriage rituals did sound exotic—if not irrelevant.

Pertence verdadeiramente ao seu tempo, é verdadeiramente contemporâneo, aquele que não coincide perfeitamente com este, nem está adequado às suas pretensões e é, portanto, nesse sentido, inatual; mas, exatamente por isso, exatamente através desse deslocamento e desse anacronismo, ele é capaz, mais do que os outros, de perceber e apreender seu tempo.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.