Unfortunately Relevant Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true. — Winston Churchill

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this — Friedrich Nietzsche

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. — Edith Wharton

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards. — Nathanael West

If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day. — Shelby Harris

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. — Haruki Murakami

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them. — Oswald Chambers

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent. — Plautus

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Another way to speak of the anxiety is in terms of the gap between information and knowledge. A barrage of data so often fails to tell us what we need to know. Knowledge, in turn, does not guarantee enlightenment or wisdom. (Eliot said that, too: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?") It is an ancient observation, but one that seemed to bear restating when information became plentiful - particularly in a world where all bits are created equal and information is divorced from meaning. The humanist and philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford, for example, restated it in 1970: "Unfortunately, 'information retrieving,' however swift, is no substitute for discovering by direct personal inspection knowledge whose very existence one had possibly never been aware of, and following it at one's own pace through the further ramification of relevant literature." He begged for a return to "moral self-discipline. — James Gleick

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. — Henri Matisse

The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. — Chantal Zabus

Didn't know what to say but I did know what to think and that was that Jake Spear was ... the ... bomb. — Kristen Ashley

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you. — Phil Collins