#context

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#beautiful #body #context #dealing #difference

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#common #context #every #interpreted #many

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ↗

— William Odom

#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#context #day #headlines #into #just

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context. ↗

— Frank Snepp

#disinformation #effective #most #narrow #very

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. ↗

— Frank Black

#context #danger #death #fire #includes

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#approved #authorized #been #benefactors #comment

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#ideas #unbiased-apathy #life

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed. ↗

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

#historical-perspective #media-studies #change