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Offense is what people take when they can't take argument. -- Richard Dawkins
Offense is not equal opportunity -- Bobby Knight
The best defense is a good offense. -- Jack Dempsey
Offense is the essence of air power. -- Henry H. Arnold
Offense is spacing and spacing is offense. -- Chuck Daly
Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships. -- Bear Bryant
The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin -- Bob Marley
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. -- Pat Summitt
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. -- Abraham Lincoln
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree! -- Sylvester Stallone
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. -- Raymond Carver
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense. -- Ken Kesey
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. -- Clarence Darrow
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -- Rene Descartes
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. -- George Whitefield
Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense. -- John Bevere
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool. -- Brigham Young
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable. -- Kirk Ferentz
How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. -- Gretchen Rubin
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? -- William Shakespeare
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives. -- Lloyd D. Newell
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. -- E. M. Forster
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. -- Ken Harrelson
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. -- Ayn Rand
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. -- John Vianney
Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. -- David Jeremiah
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offense, & the other labor to take none. The best of men are severe to themselves, tender over others. -- Richard Sibbes
The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears. -- Seth Godin
When you take offense, you forfeit happiness. -- James Randall Robison
A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. -- Ella Leya
Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer. -- Tim Fargo
Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer. -- David McGee
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? -- Diogenes
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. -- Ambrose Bierce
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. -- Criss Jami
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. -- Condoleezza Rice
Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm. -- Nigel Warburton
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. -- Criss Jami
The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity. -- Criss Jami
If you carry offense in your heart, it is too early for you to start your team -- Sunday Adelaja
We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended. -- Moffat Machingura
Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense.""None taken," I said. "I think. -- Ally Carter
Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. -- Salman Rushdie
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. -- A. J. Muste
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent. -- Criss Jami
Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -- Rene Descartes
If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. -- Alan Thicke
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. -- Holly Lisle
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me. -- Chuck Connors
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. -- Mark Twain
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. -- George Santayana
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. -- Adam McKay
After all, it's in the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it. -- Portia de Rossi
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. -- Dan Quayle
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves. -- Molly Ringle
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it. -- Criss Jami
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction. -- George Will
It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! -- Steven Magee
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not. -- Vanilla Ice
There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive. -- Gillian Flynn
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive. -- Mark McKinnon
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. -- Stanley Baldwin
When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily - and Parisian vampires were the worst of all. -- Cassandra Clare
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am... -- Jesse Ventura
Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended. -- Jonathan Rauch
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. -- Neil Gaiman
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises. -- Donna Lynn Hope
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
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. -- Robert Greene
It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it! -- Tamora Pierce
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. -- Criss Jami
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
When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense. -- C. Terry Warner
But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1). -- Jerry Bridges
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. -- Joyce Meyer
I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get? -- Nick Saban
You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not.... -- Israelmore Ayivor
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. -- Henry Rollins
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. -- Barack Obama
If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. -- David A. Bednar
My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind. -- Criss Jami
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. -- Laurel Lea
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Every offense is avenged on earth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Too much apology doubles the offense. -- James Richardson
Let the punishment match the offense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who pardons easily invites offense. -- Pierre Corneille
Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. -- Brandon Mull
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. -- John Brady
He who forgives readily only invites offense. -- Pierre Corneille
To take offense is to give offense. -- Helen Schucman
Love the offender, yet detest the offense. -- Alexander Pope
The best defense is a confusing offense. -- Kimberly Pauley
A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense. -- Mark Twain
No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse. -- Anthony Horowitz
The triangle is a foundation to an offense. -- Bill Cartwright
I can't ask the offense to score slower. -- Pete Carroll
Do passing drills that come from your offense. -- John Wooden
Every offense is not a hate at first. -- William Shakespeare
Concentrate on defense because the offense will come. -- Andrew Bogut
Our response to an offense determines our future. -- John Bevere
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally. -- Eva Brann
My responsibility is to get people into the offense. -- Deron Williams
The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague. -- Tony Kornheiser
None are as offended as those who contrive offense. -- Kurt Hanks
The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague. -- Tony Kornheiser
The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given, -- Ricky Gervais

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