Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.
My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.
You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.
Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.
'Without a Trace' analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.
All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.
I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.
Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.
Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.
I wanted to put my present joy in the context of all the past pain, to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel.
If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.
What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.
I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.
I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.
I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.