Quotes About Context

You can't judge a person by what they're doing, till you know why they're doing it.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

To use C. S. Lewis's distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it's about truth; for the bardic youth minister, it's about meaning. Both approaches are necessary and appropriate. But they are different and depend on the context.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

Priority is a function of context.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.