Offense Quotes

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living…

— Barack Obama

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are…

— Robin Williams

“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

— John Wesley

I like the offense to flow.

— Mike D'Antoni

Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in…

— Ravi Zacharias

God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to…

— D. A. Carson

It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should…

— Annie Dillard

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

— Branch Rickey

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

— Dabo Swinney

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— William Shakespeare

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes…

— Vincent de Paul

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his…

— Alan Watts

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their…

— Melina Marchetta

I take offense to that. (Pandora) And I take offense to my sudden need for a testicle retrieval. You know, I would…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom…

— Abraham Lincoln

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a…

— Ruth Harris

After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief…

— Gary Jennings

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I…

— Sandra Cisneros

Coming from Golden State, they were such a unique offense.

— Jordan Poole

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

— Aristotle