Quotes About Context

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

In the environment of the mobile Internet, there is value and need to explore every commercial context. What I care about is not just technology but the changes in people's behavior in this environment, which makes it possible that everyone can get connected with everyone else.

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

ads and popups in favor of minimally intrusive, context-sensitive, consumer-friendly text advertising. The Web 2.0 lesson: leverage customer-self service and

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't change over time, you know what? They just haven't lived long enough. (Page 33)

I try not to think too much about those days now—let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't change over time, you know what? They just haven't lived long enough.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

History is not written as it was experienced, nor should it be. The inhabitants of the past know better than we do what it was like to live there, but they were not well placed, most of them, to understand what was happening to them and why.

Para ministrar a palavra de Deus, os pastores-teólogos precisam ler não só a Bíblia, mas também o mundo ao qual a Palavra de Deus é dirigida, o mundo em que ela deve estabelecer e ser aplicada. (p. 153-4)

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

I speak as a person, from a context of personal experience and personal learnings.

To respond to our times we must first understand our times.

One note is not music. It is what lies between the notes that makes the music. And what is between them is: their relationship. Relationships are the music life makes. Context creates meaning. Asking, "What is the meaning of life?" is the wrong question; it makes you look in the wrong places. The question is, "Where is the meaning in life?" The place to look is: between.

Norms are valid only for normal situations.

That is, there is no meaning to the velocity of an object by itself: the only velocity that exists is the velocity of an object with respect to another object.

An event that was rare in that twenty-five-year span may not be all that rare when placed in a longer historical context. After all, a researcher stands only a one-in-four chance of observing a "hundred-year flood" in twenty-five years