Offense Quotes - Page 8

• The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

  Ricky Gervais

  Taken, Simple, Facts

  "Ricky Gervais: My Golden Globes mission". ew.com. January 06, 2012.

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• It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Purpose, Agonizing

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration's claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions.

  Larry Klayman

  Daughter, Taken, Player

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1997.

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• I show up on the injury report as much as the statsheet, but if I’m healthy, I’m going to be a late-round steal in most leagues. Last year I had more than 1,000 yards on the ground despite my injuries, and I had six rushing touchdowns despite Andre Brown vulturing my goal line duties around mid-season. Now I’m in Indianapolis, and my new offensive coordinator is implementing a West Coast offense that should get me plenty of carries and a few catches each game. Plus, I’ll be the goal line guy. If I’m not wearing a boot.

  Ahmad Bradshaw

  Rushing, Years, Games

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• In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Soul

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• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Islamic, Government

  "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Running, Team

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• It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Circumstances, Audience

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

  Julia Lathrop

  Children, Adults, Criminals

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• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Police, Drug

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• I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

  Dave Morin

  Phones, Defense, Use

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• If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friday, Sleep, Light

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• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Errors, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• I look back at a couple of games we lost that we shouldn't have lost that could have made a difference. But this is the reality. There have been a myriad of things that have led to our record. I take my share of the blame. We've had a lot of penalties and inconsistent execution on offense that has led to this record.

  Kerry Collins

  Couple, Reality, Games

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• On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Believe, Decision, September 11

  "GOP Presidential Candidates Hold First Debate". NPR News, www.npr.org. May 4, 2007.

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• I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.

  Jean Chretien

  Morning, Rights, People

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• As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Play, Together

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• Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Player

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.84, Penguin

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• We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, America, Meditation

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• Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

  Robert Greene

  Pride, Worry, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.140, Profile Books

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• Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Winning, Defense, Tickets

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• I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.

  Gus Malzahn

  Believe, Blessed, Unique

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• 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

  Running, Hurt, Clouds

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• I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.

  Tim Tebow

  Running, Hard Work, Play

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