Offense Quotes - Page 10

• For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

  Mel Carnahan

  Sex, Past, Years

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace

  Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

  Austin O'Malley

  Children, Causes, Beats

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• A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

  Hakim Bey

  Fate, Self, People

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• You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

  Charles Ruff

  Political, Allies, World

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• When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

  Anthony de Mello

  Height, Spirit, Raises

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 80, 1992.

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• For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity. . . . Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.

  Ronald Butt

  Life, Christian, Children

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• As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence, we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.

  Francis of Assisi

  Forgiveness, Believe, Fire

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• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• [My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Vision, World

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• If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Thinking

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.251, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Speech, Spokes, Candor

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• 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

  God, Christian, Anxiety

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• ...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need to give up a piece of your team in order to make the big play. It's a game of patience, and that pretty much defines how I run the ball. I'm patient, always looking for the opportunity and always trying to capitalize on the other person's mistake."

  Priest Holmes

  Sports, Football, Running

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• "Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."

  Reggie Rivers

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

  Rubin Carter

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Forgiving, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Kings, Air, Law

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• When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

  Martin Luther

  People, Devil, Doe

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.

  Carrie Prejean

  Country, Sex, Believe

  "My Voltaire Moment" by Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

  Renzo Novatore

  Old Things, Smoking, Leaving

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• The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).

  Gary North

  Daughter, Integrity, Son

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• Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

  Larry Coker

  Football, Smart, Intelligent

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• I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Should Have

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