Playing Offense Quotes

#1. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

Mark Batterson

#2. I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

Joe Manchin

#3. I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

John Wooden

#4. A Midsummer Night's Dream?" "Of course," said Clarence. "A great piece on love.

Richelle Mead

#5. Matthew 11:12? "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it." Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines?

Mark Batterson

#6. When you laugh ... I want to smile. And when you cry ... ' She brushed the tears off of my face. 'I want the tears to roll down my cheeks.' She shook her head once, whispering, 'I'm not leaving you ... won't.

Charles Martin

#7. The center of the stage is where I am.

Martha Graham

#8. In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.

Jesse Plemons

#9. In Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.

Todd Russell

#10. You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. Begin when you have the strength. You have it now; therefore the best time to begin is now.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. ( ... ) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity.

Dave Eggers

#13. We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

Silvio Berlusconi

#14. Maybe we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances. Maybe we need to stop talking to God about our problem and start talking to our problem about God.

Mark Batterson

#15. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

#16. Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Mariah Nelson

#17. A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.

Bruce Beutler

#18. When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in
woe be to truth!

Laurence Sterne

#19. I could say it all began with my mother.

Shannon Celebi

#20. That hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.

Emily Giffin