Relevance Quotes

116 Relevance quotes by 108 unique authors

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great… — Talcott Parsons
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my… — Peter Singer
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according… — Jane Smiley
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag
Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a… — Lucy Grealy
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
â€¦I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down… — Neil Gaiman
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with… — William H. Gass
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something… — Christopher Ryan
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible… — Philip Yancey
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a… — Dave Eggers
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. — Thomas Pynchon
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word.… — Eric Metaxas
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. — Rebecca Adamson
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it… — Devdutt Pattanaik

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