#context

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

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#because #behind #california #china #competitive

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#context #doing #elements #going #how

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#extraordinary #fascinating #happening #idea #me

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. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#any #being #context #costume #designer

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#boundaries #confused #contexts #genre #had

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. ↗

— Theresa May

#context #free #increasingly #movement #need

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#beautiful #complete #context #faith #good

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this. ↗

— Katy Perry

#back #be careful #careful #completely #context