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An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself -- John Boehner
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. -- Thomas Paine
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. -- Jean Ingelow
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. -- George Bernard Shaw
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. -- Alexander Haig
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. -- Susan Sontag
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that. -- Megyn Kelly
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. -- Edward Abbey
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. -- William Cowper
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. -- Gregory Maguire
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman. -- George Farquhar
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. -- Albert Einstein
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. -- Al Swearengen
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country. -- Rick Perry
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. -- Carlos Castaneda
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. -- Ian Fleming
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't. -- Kimberly Guilfoyle
As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity. -- Emily Dickinson
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country. -- Rush Limbaugh
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. -- Richard Dawkins
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. -- Rand Paul
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. -- Rand Paul
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. -- Jon Corzine
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. -- Bryan Fuller
Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. -- Allan Dare Pearce
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. -- Claude Debussy
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner. -- Mark Twain
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. -- Alexander Pushkin
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity. -- Silvio Berlusconi
Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God. -- Stephen L. Richards
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. -- Pablo Picasso
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you -- Giles Fraser
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity. -- Michael Moore
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. -- Hendrik Hertzberg
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? -- Blaise Pascal
But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground. -- Lisa Kleypas
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others. -- Jose Marti
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies. -- Judith McNaught
Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear. -- Steve Corbett
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people. -- Todd Akin
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities. -- Margo Kingston
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. -- Javier MarÃas
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. -- Ian Mcewan
While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other. -- Ted Cruz
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt? -- Jonathan Swift
Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use. -- Friedrich Engels
If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life. -- Bryan Fuller
And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly. -- George W. Bush
The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right. -- Rush Limbaugh
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. -- Richard Dawkins
Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you, because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light hit on their damned faces, INTENSELY. -- Maverick
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right. -- Rush Limbaugh
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God. -- Max Anders
Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord. -- Jen Lancaster
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it. -- Lord Chesterfield
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture. -- George W. Bush

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