Offensive Quotes - Page 11

• Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Careers, Healthy

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, War, Army

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• You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to be so offensive that it becomes uninteresting or so niche that I don't have an audience anymore? But it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where roasting now is a movement. These roasts are on in India, in Mexico.

  Jeff Ross

  Worry, India, Mexico

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Block, Nfl

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• It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

  Bhakti Tirtha Swami

  Spiritual, Fall, Mercy

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• If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

  Pope Pius VI

  Brother, Fall, Hands

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• The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

  William Hurt

  Inspiration, Energy, Mediocrity

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• Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

  Scott Frost

  Team, Bells, Cows

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In Europe, you can get arrested for being misogynist, arrested for being offensive. You know, these are actual offenses. These are things that police can come and take you away for in Europe. Americans have to understand how bad it is in Europe.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Europe, Police, Offense

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

  Marco Rubio

  Together, Habit, Trump

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.

  Mike Pence

  Entering, Bans, Unconstitutional

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

  Jesse Jackson

  Talking, Diplomatic

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

  Matthew Dowd

  Mean, Approval Rating, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

  Al Sharpton

  Community, Kind, Wonderful

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Two, Government Intervention

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake in these questions to feel that we ourselves know the difference between right and wrong. And then along come these experts, philosophers, claiming, you know, an expertise, a special training, a special skill, a special talent.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Skills, Differences, Humanity

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kbia.org. April 22, 2014.

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• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  William Howard Taft

  Running, Country, Marine

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• Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Subsidies

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Made, Paving

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Kings

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.'

  Chip Kelly

  Funny, Team, Eagles

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• At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Thinking, Excellence

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• It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dignity, Attraction

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