Offence Quotes - Page 8

• The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

  George Brandis

  Criminals, Crime, Code

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

  Bill McKibben

  Tired, Play, Sometimes

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

  Mark Dever

  Flesh, Sensible, Seems

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

  Azealia Banks

  Careers, Lil Kim, Tribute

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• David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

  Margo Kingston

  Holocaust, Humanity, Climate

  "The Seeds of the Global Warming Police State" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2007.

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• There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Desire, Wanting More

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• Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

  Vera Brittain

  Book, Party, People

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• Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

  Richard Sherman

  Running, Nfl, Sound

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• Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Grace

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Deceit, Ease

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

  Kate Burridge

  Different, Causes, Interest

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• One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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