Quotes About Relevance

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Compatibility is the degree to which an innovation is perceived as being consistent with the existing values, past experiences, and needs of potential adopters.

it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse

He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want—not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable.

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion…. After

Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

Tratas de transmitirle a tu hijo unos valores, unas convicciones, y luego compruebas que cuanto le dices no le interesa nada, que está a otra cosa y que, en consecuencia, todo aquello en lo que creías morirá contigo o incluso antes que tú.

Nella vita odierna il mondo appartiene agli stolti, agli indifferenti e agli attivisti. Oggi il diritto di vivere e di trionfare si ottiene praticamente con gli stessi requisiti con cui si ottiene il ricovero in un manicomio: l'incapacità di pensare, l'amoralità e l'eccessiva agitazione.

Il Destino è come una persona che smette di importunarci quando si accorge che non diamo importanza a ciò che fa.

There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.

aquele Jesus Cristo que não foi nada no mundo, tanto que se duvida dele pela história

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

Cum se face c?,spre deosebire de alÅ£ii, Imediat ce dispari,nu-mi mai e dor de tine? C?ci atunci când nu te v?d,încetezi s? exiÅŸti. Iar dac? Å£i-e dor de ceva ce nu exist?, SimÅ£i acest lucru pentru nimic.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

It can be argued that Advent, more than any other season of the church year, is immediately relevant to our concrete lives as individuals, to the concrete life of the church under stress, and to the concrete headlines in the newspaper.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I've never been fashionable, so I'll never be out of fashion.

Of course, I worry about being fashionable, although when you're fashionable you're already on the track to being unfashionable.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.