Quotes About Taking Things Out Of Context

#1. You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

Dan Barker

#2. I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

Richard DuFour

#4. In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.

Toshihiko Fukui

#5. A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Marya Mannes

#6. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

Molly Haskell

#7. The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture ... taking a verse out of context ... deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited - these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.

Billy Graham

#8. God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Ronald J. Sider

#9. Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

Joanie Connell

#10. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.

Margaret Atwood

#11. There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

John Barrymore

#12. I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

Jeff Sessions

#13. In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

Sarah Parcak

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Mena

#15. The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

Suze Orman

#16. Business writer Polly LaBarre notes, The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.

Daniel H. Pink

#17. I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

Stanley Donwood

#18. You see, my dear, when people are angry with us, it is because they think we have done something to hurt them. Often, as it turns out, they have misjudged us or our motives. Thus, anger becomes a selfish emotion.

Carolynn Carey

#19. We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Cecily McMillan

#20. Do not be afraid of confession!

Pope Francis

#21. Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.

Tom Wujec

#22. Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Fritjof Capra

#23. One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Trent Reznor

#24. You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

Peter Wright

#25. Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Allan Bloom

#26. I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

Sarah Silverman

#27. Ah, but that's the glory of not being Eden. She can feel bad all she wants and we never have to feel it!"
"You, beautiful girl, are mean."
I smile and pull my sunglasses down. "You love me.

Kiersten White

#28. You know, I'm really not that bright.

Larry David

#29. I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

Bill Paxton

#30. One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Fred Frith

#31. Darling
I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

Rachel Carson