Quotes About Offense

It is curious but true that those who make a habit of saying unkind things are often the most easily hurt and offended when their victims retaliate.

Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: 'Are you telling the truth?' If you are the victim of a sexual offence, very often in the past that has been the first question.

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.

The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added. "None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin'' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.

Are men and beasts of the same category? Is there no essential difference between them in respect to the quality of their value?…It is an offense to the majesty of the human spirit; for if any man deserves to be regarded as of the same quality as a beast of burden, then no man has any dignity left.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

No marriage is offense free. Two sinful people living together have lots of opportunity for heartfelt apology.

Ma'am, the way this usually works is that I ask you a question, and then you tell me a lie. If you give me a dishonest answer before I have the chance to ask the question, it offends my sense of propriety." Her

No. We want to be in defilade. What you want to happen to them is to put them in enfilade.

We get soo offended when labeled with the word 'ignorant' but all that means is just being uninformed, unaware we all are.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

If you are going to be offended by other people's opinions then maybe you should consider keeping yours to yourself

It's an offense of majesty to love Olympic gods like common mortals. Shouldn't they be just worshiped?

Upon the offender's repentance (v. 29; Luke 17:3), God requires us to forgive from the heart (v. 35).

It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished many years before, together with werewolves and sorcerers.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive.

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

La mayor ventaja del Amor es que no puede recibir ninguna ofensa de parte de los hombres o de los dioses, y que ni dioses ni hombres pueden ser ofendidos por él, porque si sufre o hace sufrir es sin coacción, siendo la violencia incompatible con el amor.

Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.