Quotes About Context

I had to keep checking the copyright page to remind myself this novel [Karl Moritz's Anton Reiser ] was published in 1785, not 1985.

Dac? o idee pare muribund? sau, pur ?i simplu, irelevant?, poate c? nu-i trebuie decât s? fie introdus? într-un context cu totul nou pentru a fi trezit? iar??i la via??.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

There's a time and place for everything, and you are surely in the right place at the moment.

They say all people who lived under Hitler were bad because they fought the war with him. That is wrong. We can't say all people were bad. We must find out why they were with him. If you want to make something better, you must know the reasons why it was wrong and what has happened. My

Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut

entailing difficult technical philosophical terms are so different from those of European thought, that they can hardly ever be accurately translated.

all historical fiction is really contemporary fiction; you write out of your own time.44

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Politicians should aim for higher discourse, the media should report context instead of seeking to inflame the public, and the public should not reward bad behavior nor engage in it on social media.

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Sometimes words ruin everything.

the idea of "working well" was a relative one for us and that in the context of our present lives my mother was right, it was absolutely fine, no problem.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i.

for personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present into much better perspective.