Context Quotes

638 quotes by 572 authors

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates… — Margot Anand
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us… — Joe Lieberman
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context… — Phil Harding
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the… — Pope John Paul II
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in… — Pope John Paul II
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as… — Thomas Berry
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play… — Kevin Spacey
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. — Marjorie Garber
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment Â– one thought or emotion after… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
I like suggesting that â€˜we are slaves to the objects around us,â€™ that â€˜plenty should be enough,â€™ or that the â€˜buyer should beware,â€™ within the… — Barbara Kruger
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying… — Sean Penn
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to… — Brad Pitt
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate… — Richard Serra
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in… — Wendie Malick
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated… — Richard Attenborough

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