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Quotes About Offend

My movies were always clean. There was never anything obnoxious in them that might offend anybody.
~ Gene Autry
We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.
~ Martie Maguire
I didn't mean to offend anybody. It's my filter. I constantly work on it.
~ Pam Shriver
I'm like Madonna, I'm not afraid to offend.
~ Perez Hilton
I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.
~ Cody Fern
I don't care if I offend people. I really don't care.
~ Jim Norton
The show Larry is much more aggressive. The real Larry is very gentle and very sweet and doesn't like to offend people.
~ Laurie David
There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.
~ Pernell Roberts
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
~ Taslima Nasrin
The justices were not appointed to roam at large in the realm of public policy and strike down laws that offend their own ideas of what is desirable and what is undesirable.
~ William H. Rehnquist
then it is up to the public to patronize only those places that least offend its taste. A man may be imbued with the ideas of a vegetarian, but he can't run a vegetarian restaurant successfully when all his patrons demand beef.
~ William J. Mann
What had become of his usually quiet and firm manner and the carelessly calm expression of his face? Every time he turned toward Anna he slightly bowed his head as if he wished to fall down before her, and in his eyes there was an expression of submission and fear. 'I do not wish to offend,' his every look seemed to say, 'I only wish to save myself, but I do not know how.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
~ Tony Campolo
Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
~ Eriq La Salle
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they? Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.
~ David Eddings
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will.
~ William Shakespeare
I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill: If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field; they do offend our sight: If they'll do neither, we will come to them, And make them skirr away, as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings: Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have, And not a man of them that we shall take Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
~ William Shakespeare
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
~ Sam Brown
I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.
~ Peter Hedges
Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
I rarely bring a date along to family functions, because more than two or three of us in one room can be hazardous, especially if you are shy, offend easily, clean and sober, or don't eat meat. The way my family demonstrates our love and affection for each other has occasionally been mistaken for verbal abuse by outsiders, so I usually don't take the risk.
~ Unknown
Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, "What do you see in this work?" The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.
~ Unknown
I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.
~ John Cho