Offense Quotes - Page 22

• Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

  Mark Driscoll

  Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2013

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

  Floyd Red Crow Westerman

  Culture, Ceremony, Knows

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• We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.

  Frankie Boyle

  Reality, People, Understanding

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• For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Careers, Defense, Firsts

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• Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mind, Trying, Crosses

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• In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

  Michael Vick

  Moving, Pockets, East

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• Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.

  George W. Bush

  Usa, Liberty, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

  Anthony de Mello

  Names, Earth, Height

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• As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Rubbish, Married

  The New York Times, March 14, 1982.

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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection

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• Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, Silence, House

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• The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Agency, Community

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• 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

  Land, Punishment, Oil

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Jesus, Block

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• No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Eye

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.131, Penguin

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• But love that comes too late,
  Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
  To the great sender turns a sour offense,
  Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gone, Too Late

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Courtesy

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• I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

  Tanith Lee

  Hope, Heart, Ambition

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• Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

  Charles Tillman

  Defense, Want

  Source: www.sportsdouchebags.com

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• Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reality, Abuse, Favors

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Rejection

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• For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

  Demetri Martin

  Confused, Moving, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Balls

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