Great Context Quotes

#1. Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ...

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#2. But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

#3. The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.

Erwin Schrodinger

#4. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Gil Gerard

#6. I was usually hungry enough to eat what I was given without comment, but if the Earl served boiled tongue or calves' foot jelly, I fully intended to wrap it in my napkin and hide it in the nearest umbrella stand.

Alyxandra Harvey

#7. Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

Cassandra Clare

#8. We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.

C.S. Friedman

#9. When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad ... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Gary Lineker

#10. The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context.

Dutch Sheets

#11. But we have to
No we don't.
But we can't
Yes we can.
But she doesn't
She'll figure it out.
But it's
Not your fault and not your problem.
But I'm the one
Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want?

Karen Marie Moning

#12. In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Pope John Paul II

#13. I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.

Rita Dove

#14. The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

Reed Hastings

#15. No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation.

Eugene H. Peterson

#16. If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

Anna Wintour

#17. But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Jessica Hagedorn

#18. I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

Sinclair Lewis

#19. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma.
-Andreas Corelli

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has pulled together illuminating examples with great lessons for anyone working to create an equitable and truly diverse society.

Rinku Sen

#21. As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Jonathan Lethem

#22. We are all called to promote God's Kingdom on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#23. Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

Brian Greene

#24. I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

Ian Anderson

#25. I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

Ronnie Milsap

#26. My identity is without root.

C.S. Friedman

#27. Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

Biz Stone

#28. Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Kristin Cavallari

#29. No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

C.S. Lewis

#30. Try to build bridges of understanding. Don't build higher barriers of misunderstanding.

Dale Carnegie

#31. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

#32. I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

#33. The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be redeemed by the brush of the wing of the great bird of spirit.

Michael Meade

#34. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

John J. Ratey

#35. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

John C. Maxwell

#36. Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

Paul Caponigro

#37. If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Shams Tabrizi

#38. All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

William Macneile Dixon

#39. To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#40. Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

Tim Fargo

#41. Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.

Pearl Zhu

#42. One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.

Elf Sternberg

#43. The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense ... and then failed, miserably, in every regard.

C.S. Friedman