Quotes About Relevance

We're informed the Church must "update" its moral teachings to stay relevant, but then discover that a good many converts enter the Church precisely because her moral theology offers sanity, humanity, and a path to human flourishing.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson.

cling to ideas from their parents and the Industrial Age, and then fall out of sync with the present and with the future.

those numbers have more meaning because they are real numbers that relate to your life.

have very little relevance to my personal financial success.

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.

Little Jem had said Wow-ga that morning. What were principalities and powers, the rise and fall of dynasties, the overthrow of Grit or Tory, compared with that miraculous occurrence?

I read this book for the first time in almost ten years to prepare this introduction. On one level I am pleased to see that it holds up. On another level, I was appalled. I found myself wondering if the current administration had read it and used it as an instruction manual.

on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is .

I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.

Softly Louis asked, When did you figure this out? Some time ago. It did not seem important to our survival.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía.

soy un mortal de tan poca consecuencia para el mundo que lo que yo haga no tiene mucha importancia;

One guy's crap is another guy's fertilizer

Assuming that the manner in which something is said is often as relevant as its content, I have edited as little as possible, changing sentence structure only when clarity would be otherwise sacrificed, and revising unorthodox spelling on the premise that linotype operators have a difficult enough life as it is.

The book probably owes a little to The Tooth and the Nail, by Bill S. Ballinger, a fine writer who's pretty much forgotten these

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.