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I don't see myself as offending people. -- Jimmy Carr
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. -- Billy Graham
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. -- William Shakespeare
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. -- Daniel Defoe
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. -- Dave Barry
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. -- Horatio Nelson
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. -- Patton Oswalt
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. -- Drake
The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain -- Dave Gorman
Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day. -- Timothy Keller
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over. -- Alec Baldwin
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. -- Thomas a Kempis
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. -- Walter Savage Landor
I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone. -- Ken Curtis
As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. -- Gracie Allen
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself? -- Michel de Montaigne
Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself. -- Omar Suleiman
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either. -- Paulo Freire
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. -- William Shakespeare
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure. -- Alphonsus Rodriguez
I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan. -- Karl Pilkington
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers. -- Alexander McCall Smith
If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other. -- Blake Shelton
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -- William Shakespeare
I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring. -- Mike Scully
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. -- Alice Walker
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. -- Sam Harris
But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. -- Edward Burns
It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people. -- Rush Limbaugh
'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together. -- David Blunkett
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything. -- Amity Shlaes
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending. -- Sloane Crosley
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is. -- Anthony Bourdain
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. -- Patton Oswalt
It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions. -- Joyce Meyer
You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone. -- Phyllis Diller
If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective. -- Craig Groeschel
I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan. -- Karl Pilkington
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere. -- Timothy Keller
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions, -- Staffan de Mistura
Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. -- Christopher Nutall
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. -- Linus Torvalds
I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me. -- Sandra Bernhard
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. -- Horace Walpole
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong. -- Noam Chomsky
May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil. -- James E. Faust
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. -- Billy Connolly
The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker. -- Richard Armour
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. -- Larry King
I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. -- Shannon Hale
I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man. -- Alastair Cook
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about. -- Randall Robinson
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. -- Herbert M. Shelton
don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way. -- Fanny Burney
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending. -- Sergio De La Pava
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining. -- John Ruskin
I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody. -- George Lopez
Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it. -- Jello Biafra
We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it. -- Robert Svoboda
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason. -- Joseph Addison

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