I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims.… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives:… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the person everyone is afraid of alarming or offending has a slightly less fixed idea about what sort of person they… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have so many questions, but I know better than to ask many of them. I can anticipate how I might hurt,… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
