Quotes About Context

Men can bed any woman," she said stiffly. "It means nothing." He paused. "Nothing," he repeated thoughtfully. "It rarely means nothing. And sometimes, in very particular circumstances, it means a great deal.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

You pounce on everything you said with a pair of tweezers and pluck it about until you can't remember exactly what it is you said, what context it was in, if you even said it, and if anyone heard you at all.

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

History is always the interpretation of the present

Why, that is why the gods made whores for imps like me.

They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin.

In economics, contingent, time- and context-bound theories

The truth is, you can find almost anything in the Bible to latch onto if you are really determined.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

The medium is the message.

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all.

but what do slow and fast matter any more?

Every individual," wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.

I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

It's typical of Andy Barr and his team, taking things out of context.

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.