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Quotes About Offense

is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
~ Ki Longfellow
You, offend me?" He let a soft chuckle roll. "Not likely." Then he forced an apologetic grimace. "But I figure my taking off offended you. So would you let me make it up to you? I'd like to take you to supper tonight." She looked surprised. And a little nervous. Maybe he was moving too fast. "Or tomorrow," he said, "if that suits you better." "N-no. Tonight . . . would be fine.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
You laugh at me, Frau Steadman?" Mr. Ollenburger touched his chest, his face twisting into an offended pout, yet his eyes sparkled merrily.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
He laughed, a low, sexy growl, as she moaned in obvious frustration. "Patience is a virtue," he said. "Torture is a federal offense," she replied.
~ Carla Cassidy
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
~ Carlos Castaneda
but it didn't make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.
~ Carole Lawrence
Dude, you tried to kidnap her to bait her mom into coming to you. Then you tried to turn her mom into a pixie. Come on. I mean, no offense, but you are not Daddy of the Year stuff here.? Issie steps a little forward. ?Plus, you didn't even show up on the scene for what? Sixteen years? That's lame. Seriously. That is very deadbeat dad stuff right there.
~ Carrie Jones
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Thou hast added insult to injury.
~ Phaedrus
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
~ Tennessee Williams
Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
?im možemo nekom ?oveku da kažemo jasno i otvoreno da nas je uvredio i da navedemo posve odre?eno ?ime je to i kada u?inio, to zna?i da smo mu uvredu oprostili ili smo spremni da to u?inimo. Muka je dok uvredu nosimo ?utke u sebi.
~ Ivo Andri?
Are you saying my grandmahmen is a fucking liar—" Oh, great. The only thing worse than someone calling a Brother's mahmen out was if the offender went up a generation in the bloodline and tossed his granny on the bonfire of disgrace.
~ J.R. Ward
I am so honest that at times people get offended by what I say. In our industry, truth is not really appreciated. I love to be of my own. I try spending quality time with my family, my two very close friends and my pet Liam.
~ Neeru Bajwa
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.
~ Fidel Castro
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
~ Oscar Robertson
I'm a typical No 9: always in the box, strong, good in the air.
~ Aleksandar Mitrovic
We live in a time of safe spaces, where micro-aggressions are monitored, where offending someone is the ultimate sin, where white people can't slip up, even once, even by accident.
~ Tomi Lahren
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.
~ Howard Jacobson
After the match I made a comment, when speaking to our local media, about the game being a case of 'men against girls.' I immediately realized that this comment was totally unacceptable. No offense was meant by it and I apologize if any was caused.
~ Rob Page
We must not fall into the trap of thinking speech that offends is speech that must be forbidden. A healthy culture demands that much of us, to equip the next generation of Americans with the knowledge and reason they will need to confront an uncertain future.
~ Ben Domenech
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
~ Washington Irving
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
~ Thomas Paine
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno