Quotes About Context

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

Your perspective changes relative to the frame through which you see things.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.