Quotes About Context

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

A heartfelt thanks to Evelyn M. Duffy, my assistant on five books that have covered four presidents. President Trump presents a particular hurdle because of the deep emotions and passions he brings out in supporters and critics. Evelyn immediately grasped that the challenge was to get new information, authenticate it and put it in context while reporting as deeply as possible inside the White House.

Well, just because someone might be a source doesn't necessarily make them Deep Throat

Dios es concebido de distintas formas dependiendo del desarrollo personal de los creyentes y según su contexto cultural.

Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

What are you doing, terrorizing the virgins?

Nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos.

nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it.

nada tiene significado excepto el que nosotros le damos».

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

It was a moment that could not be understood in the context of normal human experience. A great spiritual love had settled on them all.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

For North, economic collapse is not merely an economic prediction but a theological necessity. It is in the context of this collapse that biblical Christians will come to exercise dominion.

Tout ce qu'on introduit dans un roman devient signe.

One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.

There was a term he knew and thought of now; he had heard it used only in the context of aviation, to explain how, on an otherwise clear day, a plane could fall so quickly from the sky. OBE. Overcome by events. That was what was happening now. The world—the human race—had been overcome by events.

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.

One person's data is another person's noise.

Memory is all we really have. All we are. Without memories to give us a context for what's happening around us, anything could be happening.", Falling (FADE Book 2) by Kailin Gow

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!