Quotes About Context

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

En realidad, no importaba de qué tratara el libro, lo importante era lo que significaba.

medida que conoce más cosas acerca de su situación y de los factores que la producen, otros elementos de los que tal vez no era consciente con anterioridad (por ejemplo, el papel del sistema de panchayats o la necesidad de un aporte adecuado de proteínas durante la infancia) también han adquirido importancia para ella.

Demi's linguistic quirk is essentially and definingly female. It just is. Drawing in breath to denounce this proposition, women will often come out with something like, Up you! or Ballshit! For I am referring to Demi's use of the conflated or mangled catchphrase--Demi's speech-bargains: she wanted two for the price of one. The result was expressive, and you usually knew what she meant, given the context.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

Therefore, while social phobics and patients with AvPD both avoid out of fear, the social phobic's fears mainly arise in the clinical context of feeling, or actually being called upon to perform in ways ranging from giving a speech to urinating in a public washroom. In contrast the avoidant's fears generally arise in the context of interpersonal relationships, the main marker I look for in making the diagnosis of AvPD.

The problem of the planetary orbits had been hopelessly bogged down in its purely geometrical frame of reference, and when Kepler realized that he could not get it unstuck, he tore it out of that frame and removed it into the field of physics. This operation of removing a problem from its traditional context and placing it into a new one, looking at it through glasses of of a different colour as it were, has always seemed to me of the very essence of the creative process.

The HAHA reaction signals the collision of bisociated contexts, the AHA reaction signals their fusion, the AH reaction their juxtaposition.

Was money part of the problem?

It is affected by the order in which information is presented and how problems are framed.

In one of her letters she writes: Some have questioned the appropriateness of talking about such matters as metta (loving-kindness) and thissa (truth) in the political context. But politics is about people and what we had seen … proved that love and truth can move people more strongly than any form of coercion.

She knew neither that she was living in the first century BC nor in the Hellenistic Age, both of them later constructs. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.

a man who spoke no English, who would argue that whole conversations could be sustained in that language with the use of a single word (Goddamn)

The Mysteries are teachings that cannot be grasped by the intellect alone, but only by the deep mind made accessible in trance. They may be conveyed by an object—a shaft of wheat, as in the Eleusinian Mysteries—by a key phrase, or symbol. The secret itself may be meaningless when out of context: only within the framework of the ritual does it take on its illuminating power.

Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. Nobody can be as big as the Beatles because the Beatles already gave it a "context." The reason they were so big is that they had no one to compare themselves with, so the sky was the limit.

I'm going to tell Mom and Dad, you know? No, you're not. God, I couldn't stop laughing. When my sister thought about it for a second, I think she figured out why she wouldn't tell Mom or Dad. It's like she suddenly remembered where we were and what had just happened and how crazy our whole conversation was considering all that. Then, she started laughing.

Tal vez sea bueno poner las cosas en perspectiva, pero a veces, creo que la única perspectiva es realmente estar allí.

What a woman says doesn't amount to shucks. It's the way she says it—that's what counts.