Quotes About Relevance

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

Always feel obligated to help people and carter for more needs of people so as to be more relevant to the world

You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

All history is contemporary history.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

History is more or less bunk.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.