Top 100 Quotes About Offense
#1. No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.
Ozzie Smith
#2. Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.
Arundhati Roy
#3. The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.
George W. Bush
#4. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
#6. No offense, but your mom is strange. She's a hit MILF, but totally off the wall."
I take my hand back."Eww! Colin, you just called my mom a MILF! I'm completely grossed out!
Simone Elkeles
#7. Bring the two aliens up here under surveillance." With a microsecond pause, and a finely calculated micro-modulation of pitch and timbre - nothing you could actually take offense at - Marvin managed to convey his utter contempt and horror of all things human. "Just that?" he said.
Douglas Adams
#8. In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.
Dean Koontz
#9. There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
Marv Levy
#10. I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.
Sandra Cisneros
#11. Rose scowled. 'I should be the one staying. I should be Jill's roommate. No offense, Sydney. We need you for the paperwork, but I'm the one who's gotta kick anyone's ass who gives Jill trouble.
Richelle Mead
#12. I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
Henry Rollins
#13. To use the machineries of justice to commit injustice is the deepest offense to the Father of Winter." He
Lois McMaster Bujold
#15. I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.
Terrell Owens
#16. If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
Chinua Achebe
#17. New Rule: A dog is the only animal that can get you laid. No offense, parrot guy, but it's not gonna happen. When women see you, they're not thinking, "I bet that guy is interesting," they're thinking, "That bird better not shit on my dress.
Bill Maher
#18. I hate it when people use phrases like 'no offense' right after they say the crappiest things to you.
Stephanie Tromly
#19. Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player."
"I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.
Steve Hamilton
#20. A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
Vince Flynn
#21. Fundamental to Jimmy's style was the presumption that the border between legal and illegal was a question of convenience rather than morality. The unforgivable offense was to be boring or colorless...
Peter Quinn
#22. It's so much easier when you've got guys on base and the whole offense is clicking.
Travis Hafner
#23. You don't get hurt running straight ahead ... three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
Woody Hayes
#24. The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.
George Vecsey
#27. Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense
Barack Obama
#28. (Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies" - unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme
Ellen Kushner
#29. I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
#30. No offense to the other people that we work with, but we spend 14-hour days with each other. You're dying for some sort of new rhythm to play with and another person to have fun with. It's like, "Oh, I can't wait to hang out with Zoe Lister Jones today and not deal with that Jake Johnson."
Max Greenfield
#31. Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense.
Various
#32. Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense.
William Shakespeare
#33. I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.
Devon Sawa
#34. When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.
Joyce Meyer
#35. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#36. [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.
Richard Dawkins
#37. But we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?
Walker Percy
#38. Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.
Laurie Seidler
#39. It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
George Whitefield
#40. sin is always an offense that touches others, that alters the world and damages it.
Pope Benedict XVI
#41. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
Jane Austen
#42. Seriously,let me talk to her when she wakes up. Girl-to-girl."
"No offense, Chas, but you'd scare the crap out of her."
"Want to say that to my face, Coalhouse?"
"What's left of it.
Lia Habel
#43. Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.
Raymond Berry
#44. Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
Charles Colson
#45. If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.
William Zinsser
#47. I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
Jake Lacy
#48. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#50. No offense," she muttered, "but fucking drink.
J.R. Ward
#51. I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall be said of me-He was murdered in cold blood
Joseph Smith Jr.
#52. I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#53. The chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.
John Gardner
#54. When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson
#55. In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.
Allen Iverson
#56. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
#58. Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
George Will
#59. You're enjoying that a sight more'n you did my corndodgers. Ought I to take offense?
Lori Benton
#60. No offense, right. "No offense" stood for "I'm going to insult you, but you can't be mad at me.
Ilona Andrews
#61. The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
Brian Griese
#62. The man doesn't want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn't anger him. I've seen what he can do and it's the stuff horror movies are made of. Body part flailing, blood. Lots of blood and torture. (Berith)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.
John Madden
#64. I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.
MaryJanice Davidson
#65. Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley
#66. J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.
Bill Cowher
#67. Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
Raymond Carver
#68. Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.
Chuck Daly
#69. She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
Henry James
#70. If my preaching of this cross is not an offense to the natural man, I am misrepresenting it.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#71. There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
Philip Yancey
#72. Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
Joyce Meyer
#74. Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#75. As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
Bobby Knight
#76. The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
#77. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense.
Amor Towles
#79. You've got spirit; I like that. It's so much more fun when I break it. Make no mistake, little boy, you are about to enter a world of pain. I am going to make you suffer for every offense you've given me."
-Theoden to Noel
Nicholas Bella
#80. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Robert Frost
#81. You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.
David Mitchell
#82. You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive
Ripley Patton
#83. Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
Bryan Fuller
#84. My apologies. I meant no offense." Except that his tone told her he didn't mean a word he'd just spoken.
Jean Oram
#85. We routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens every year whose sole offense is that they overstayed a visa or came without the right paperwork - but people who were involved in crimes against humanity get to stay?
Jodi Picoult
#86. For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.
Clay Matthews III
#87. I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.
Queen Latifah
#88. And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.
Anonymous
#89. The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
Ayn Rand
#90. Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Phaedrus
#91. I've ceased to smile long ago,
The bitter winds now chill my lips,
Another hope was just let go,
Another song was added since.
Against my will, I'll cede this song
To people's laughter and offense,
Because love's silence for the soul
Is too unbearably immense.
Anna Akhmatova
#92. If you have to say "no offense" to someone, you have already offended them.
Meg Cabot
#93. The evidence is overwhelming that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have engaged in deceit and deception over going to war in Iraq. This is an impeachable offense.
John Dean
#94. 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
Richard Dawkins
#95. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
Johnny Hunt
#96. 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
#97. From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#98. People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.
John Wesley
#99. William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
Rudy Giuliani
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