Context Of Quote Quotes & Sayings

Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it. — Gary Rohrmayer

I feel like a quote out of context, — Ben Folds

What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home. — Will Advise

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing. — Aaron Sorkin

Do as I say, not as I do

(This is actually a quote from one of her videos and I love it.) (I'm also laughing super hard in the context this was used in.) — Hannah Hart

If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context. — Benjamin L. Corey

The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents. — Stephen Jay Gould

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. — Ben Folds

We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come. — C.S. Friedman

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski

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

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. — Keith Ellison

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

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong. — Thomas Frank

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.' — Anna Kendrick