Quotes About Offend

But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.

I can choose the subroutine and perform sadness. How is that different from what you are doing, except that you use the word feelings and I use the word feelings , out of deference for your cultural memes which say: there is all the difference in the world. I erase the word even as I say it, obliterate it at the same time that I initiate it, because I must use some word yet this one offends you. I delete it, yet it remains.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

I didn't intend to hurt her. But when you deal with those who have chosen to inflict great harm on themselves and their loved ones on a daily basis, whatever you say to them about the reality of their lives will either prove inadequate or offend them deeply, and leave you with feelings of guilt and depression. It's not unlike walking through cobweb.

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

It's very difficult with psychiatric patients. Unless they actively seek help, or offend, tehy quickly slip off radar.

In the United States the apostrophe seems to be doomed.... In other respects American and English punctuation show few differences. The English are rather more careful than we are, and commonly put a comma after the next-to-last member of a series, but otherwise are not too precise to offend a red-blooded American.

Love is the fart Of every heart; It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.25

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you don't want to offend, it's Vonnegut readers, comic book fans, and Coen brothers enthusiasts.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.