Context Quotes

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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Priority is a function of context.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

I feel like a quote out of context.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

People in hell want snowcones.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo."Much worse, " he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.

Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.