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Quotes About Offense

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.
~ Doug Pederson
I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.
~ Jim Norton
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I look at the game like, 'How can I impact it not just standing there?' Just try to be active offensively setting screens, doing stuff like that, but I'm also trying to be active driving the ball to the hole, finishing, one-dribble pull-ups and stuff like that. Just playing ball and not being robotic. Just evolving.
~ Channing Frye
I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
~ Tom Stoppard
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
~ Vernon Howard
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
~ Charles Buxton
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
~ Solomon
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
~ Seneca the Younger
was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
God is not offended except by our acting contrary to our own good
~ Thomas Aquinas
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
~ Thomas Carlyle
What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
~ Nick Hornby
Los hombres ofenden antes al que aman que al que temen.
~ Nicolás Maquiavelo
In a civilized society freedom to offend should be protected, but
~ Nigel Warburton
is almost a certainty that a well-planned offense will defeat an unplanned defense every single time.
~ Clive Cussler
I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak. "A mixture of two different families. In flowers, such a concoction pleases the eye. When that amalgamation takes its shape in flesh and blood, some take great offense. In this room we recognize it for what it is—a new beauty come into the world, and it is in bloom all around us.
~ Colson Whitehead
A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Once transmuted by you into poetry, the stuff will be true, and the people will come alive. A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
~ Larry King
Let me remind you, this is a community property state, Josh. And let me also remind you that hiding assets during a divorce is a serious offense! Oh, wait! But you're a lawyer, so I guess you already knew that. Too bad you won't be able to plead ignorance when I take you back to court!" Josh
~ Laura Griffin
Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be.
~ Laura Wiess