Context Quotes

638 quotes by 572 authors

Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place.Â The encounter with Christ does not take place… — Henri Nouwen
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy… — Chuck Barris
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness… — Carl Bernstein
Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in â€œThe Enterprise Incidentâ€] was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her… — D. C. Fontana
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler
Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot… — Atom Egoyan
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative… — Margaret Atwood
Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology… — David Bosch
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the… — Vivian Gornick
The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and… — Andrea Zittel
I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get… — David Maraniss
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand,… — Maurice Saatchi
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. — Brian Ferneyhough
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts… — Theodore Zeldin
Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context… — Lucy Irvine
A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and… — Scott Ian
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to… — Lyn Nofziger

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