Quotes About Context

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

A supply ship was named the Surprise. That . . . was not encouraging.

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

The important thing was not what the conversation was but what it represented.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

have no hope for the church reforming or renewing. My only hope is that it collapses and dies soon, before it does too much more harm, so something new can be resurrected." Others had hope for renewal but talked in terms of centuries, not years or even decades. Latter-Day Saints, Adventists, Unitarians, and many others have reached out to me about their similar spiritual frustrations in their unique contexts.

She needs a lawyer, Chris.' 'I'm a lawyer.' 'You know what I mean. A criminal lawyer.' 'All lawyers are criminals.

Black holes don't just tell us about how black holes store information. Black holes inform us about information storage in any context.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare.

To be outside any situation whatsoever is known as being dead.

meanings are neither randomly bestowed by readers, nor objectively there on the page in the sense that a watermark is.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

to understand the context of events as they relate to prophecy. Prophecy and free will, you see, exist in tension, in opposition. Yet, they interact.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context, but Mustrum Ridcully was kind enough to enlighten me.

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?

The past closer, more comparable, a way to justify present action.

Leaders fail," Paul explains, "by coming in saying, 'Here's the vision. Now you go execute what I see.' That's just wrong in our view of the world." Continuing, he says, "Although leaders should provide a mission or context and point toward what is possible, what humble, good leaders also do is to help people see.

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.