184 Quotes About Context
- Author Dave Connis
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Friends who hurt deeply but connected in the same way I had.
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- Author Bernard Brodie
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One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.
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- Author Tim Fargo
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Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.
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- Author Michel de Montaigne
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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail to empathizing people and finding out the right contexts in life. ( “Twilight of desire “ )
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- Author David McDowall
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Until modern times it was as easy to travel across water as it was across land, where roads were frequently unusable.
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- Author Thomas Beller
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Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.
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- Author Jenny Odell
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Given that all of the issues that face us demand and understanding of complexity, interrelationship, and nuance, the ability to seek and understand context is nothing less than a collective survival skill.
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- Author Lila Abu-Lughod
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What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?
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