Quotes About Context

Look for the whole story and you'll get a lot closer to the truth.

In the context of defining victim, an organization that voluntarily takes care of an abused animal can hardly be considered to have suffered loss.

noscitur a sociis

some authorities use this canon at that broad level of generality.1 But we mean something more specific. When several nouns or verbs or adjectives or adverbs—any words—are associated in a context suggesting that the words have something in common, they should be assigned a permissible meaning that makes them similar.

A traditional and hence anticipated rule of interpretation, no less than a traditional and hence anticipated meaning of a word, imparts meaning.

For example, post can refer to a piece of timber set upright, a position of employment, or mail.

conveying two very different senses, as when table could refer either to a piece of furniture or to a numerical chart)

British grammarian: "It is clearly desirable that an anaphoric (backward-looking) or cataphoric (forward-looking) pronoun should be placed as near as the construction allows to the noun or noun phrase to which it refers, and in such a manner that there is no risk of ambiguity.

But the general/ specific canon makes all the difference if the general provision has been enacted later.

This, perhaps, is why it is unwise to try to judge the terrible conflict of seventy years ago with the liberal values and attitudes that we accept today as normal.

Walking tall into manhood, I now recognized that life should have purpose and a context in which to communicate that purpose to others..... if there is nobody there to learn what you have learned, then your life is without consequency, no matter how much wealth or wisdom you have attained.

A superior intellect & sensitive person is not often as comfortable and confident in public as the mediocre minds and/or bumptious people because he thoroughly knows that some will hate his understanding points sheer out of their jealousy, and others particularly duffers' will discuss and debate about his points mere out of their level of understanding to put the basics out of context.

It's extremely important to know that how you appreciate a movie has everything to do with your life experience at the moment when you see it, how you see it and where you see it.

History is so indifferently rich that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

One swallow does not make a summer.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Number is different from quantity.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world gets quicker, and shallower, and bite-sized, retaining our ability to take a deep dive into history is more and more important.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'