This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor. — Vaclav Havel
To come to your senses you have to go out of your mind. — Alan Watts
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. — Craig Reucassel
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. — Proverbs
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C. S. Lewis
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. — Thomas Kempis
Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal. — Jae Hee
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde
Short Out Of Context Quotes
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. — Bruce Lee
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. — Learned Hand
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. — James Thurber
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. — Mencius
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. — Rabindranath Tagore
An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. — Guy Debord
Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it. — Bob Lutz
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. — S. I. Hayakawa
Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman
Out Of Context Image Quotes
Taken Out Of Context Quotes
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported. — Allan Kaprow
That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film. — Clemence Poesy
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context. — Douglas Coupland
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. — Nicholas Hoult
Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous. — Max Scherzer
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. — Nicola Formichetti
Taken out of context I must seem so strange. — Ani DiFranco
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. — Jack Abramoff
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners. — Jane Fonda
Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire. — Conan O'Brien
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
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.
*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context! — Daniel Dennett
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski
If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times. — Anna Wintour
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems. — Richard Heinberg
I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. — Alexander Wang
The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle. — Marion Nestle
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church. — Gordon Fee
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration. — Meg Whitman
You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way. — George Benson
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere. — Salman Rushdie
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies — Carl Bernstein
I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape. — Charles R. Schwab
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context! — Dan Barker
You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected — Gottfried Bohm
In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. — Robert Mueller
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. — Cat Stevens
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. — Ben Folds
Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design. — John Sculley
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies. — William Macneile Dixon
Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had. — Slash
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. — Randall Terry
I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context. — Lemmy Kilmister
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. — Susan Stewart
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. — John Kricfalusi
Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand. — Al Ries
When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future. — Mark Cuban
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows. — Cornel West
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. — Diane Wakoski
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden
Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it. — John Waters
I feel like a quote out of context. — Ben Folds
Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that. — Evgeny Morozov
This is old school Drive-By Media treatment: take my comments out of context; play 'em for people on the street; go interview the obligatory feminazi, roll video from 1988 of me, and the end of the story then pops up. This is how to media operated, folks, before their monopoly was broken. — Rush Limbaugh
The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it. — Larry Holmes
Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers” miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I'd like to meet you
In a timeless placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences. — Suzanne Vega
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules. — Helen Oyeyemi
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