#context

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#elements #extremists #out #sacred #scriptures

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#around #being #contexts #disagree #enjoy

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenges #context #country #domestic #face

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. ↗

— Neil Postman

#media #television #age

My identity is without root. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#scifi #scifi

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. ↗

— David Baltimore

#answer #contexts #different #does #evident

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going. ↗

— David Ohle

#age

When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song. They decided to skip quarantine after that. ↗

— Caitlin Kittredge

#lovely-way-with-words #mental-image #funny