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Quotes About Offense

Holly Holm was a boxer for a long time, and Leslie Smith comes from muay thai. It's different. Holly is more defensive, while Leslie comes forward.
~ Cris Cyborg
I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.
~ Brock Osweiler
Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.
~ Ricky Gervais
The one thing you have an advantage of as an offensive player is the snap count.
~ Mark Schlereth
Being offended is part of being in the real world.
~ Courtney Love
'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.
~ Wes Craven
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
~ Vince Flynn
If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.
~ Ron McMillan
Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
~ Louise Erdrich
Disrespecting disrespect is not disrespect
~ it's a birthright.
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
I'll let you explain me to myself—that sounds intelligent and fantastic. Don't worry about offending me—that's quite impossible. .
~ Anais Nin
In Islamic law, conversion from Islam is apostasy—a capital offense for both the one who is misled and the one who misleads him.
~ Sam Harris
Your capacity to be offended isn't something that I or anyone else needs to respect. It isn't something that you should respect. In fact, it's something you should be on your guard for.
~ Sam Harris
Merely being offended, or worried, isn't a counter-argument. It isn't a deep reason not to think about something or discover whether or not something is true or useful.
~ Sam Harris
Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of yours contributes daily to the surplus of human misery.
~ Sam Harris
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
~ Samuel Butler
You were an outstanding athlete, Griff, but a sorry excuse for a friend. I guess that's why I'm surprised, and slightly offended, that you would come to me now, like we'd been good buddies, and ask for my help.
~ Sandra Brown
you curdled clot of whores piss
~ Sara Douglass
Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true—why, then you get offended.
~ Sara Gruen
Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. Okay, look. Deb's face was dead serious. I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong. I'm offended, Dave told her flatly.
~ Sarah Dessen
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information
~ Scott Adams
Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?
~ Scott Anderson
If there is anybody here I have not offended, I apologize.
~ Johannes Brahms