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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. -- William Shenstone
Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy. -- Blaine Nye
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence. -- George Washington
Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind. -- Gautama Buddha
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. -- Nora Ephron
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. -- Anita Brookner
I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive. -- William Westmoreland
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows." -- William Safire
Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? -- Christopher Titus
So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact. -- Trey Parker
Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves. -- John Mearsheimer
The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory. -- Tom Reiss
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. -- Mel Gibson
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion. -- J. C. Ryle
Mammary militia breast feeding en masse in Costa. Puts one off their latte. -- Katie Hopkins
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. -- Katie Hopkins
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people. -- Michael Spencer
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending. -- Marcelo Garcia
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. -- Iggy Pop
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? -- Katie Hopkins
This is a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day. -- Jeremy Clarkson
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -- George Washington
Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. -- Katie Hopkins
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same. -- Katie Hopkins
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face. -- Tim Gunn
I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means. -- Katie Hopkins
I didn't just invent saying offensive things. -- Eminem
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people. -- Viggo Mortensen
People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated. -- Taylor Momsen
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. -- Tony Hawk
Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise. -- Johan Cruijff
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. -- Red Auerbach
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. -- Robert Burns
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive. -- Larry Flynt
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. -- Bertrand Russell
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. -- David Harsanyi
As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful. -- Marshawn Lynch
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. -- Jonathan Ive
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. -- Phil Jackson
I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. -- Michael Michele
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be. -- Michael Leunig
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. -- Robert Mankoff
I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks. -- Anthony Jeselnik
It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had. -- Salman Rushdie
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows. -- Vir Das
Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive. -- Theodor Mommsen
I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means. -- Steven Pinker
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. -- Seneca the Younger
All labels are offensive in some way. -- J Mascis
Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily. -- Robert Loggia
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. -- Samuel Johnson
I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere. -- Christopher Meloni
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. -- Hugh Blair
You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking. -- Jesse Jackson
I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. -- Christopher Hitchens
I find you offensive for finding me offensive -- Eminem
I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general. -- Jack Youngblood
My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive. -- Tyler, The Creator
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. -- Barry Switzer
You got to sue the offensive line for non-support -- Mike Ditka
I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive. -- Courteney Cox
That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. -- Sarah Silverman
We want to be on the offensive without being offensive. -- Greg Koukl
It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter, -- Jamie Dimon
You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. -- Tom Lehrer
You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. -- Tom Lehrer
The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes! -- Bill Walton
Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive. -- Edward Brooke
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college. -- Ruben Studdard
Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide -- Gary Hopkins
I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive. -- Russell Simmons
I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could. -- John Madden
Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team. -- Hubie Brown
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional. -- Mike Pence
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. -- Josephine Tey
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions. -- Baltasar Gracian
No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana... -- Kiran Desai
Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays. -- Ann Coulter
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. -- Timothy West
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that. -- Dante Hall
At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God? -- Jeff Henderson
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive -- Stefan Molyneux
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. -- Jeff Cooper
You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states. -- Jeff Foxworthy
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. -- John Oliver
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues. -- George W. Bush
Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together. -- Marco Rubio
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive? -- Johnny Galecki
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. -- Jacques Delors
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! -- Bruce Lee
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste. -- Adam Brody
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. -- George C. Marshall
I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered. -- Kirsty Gallacher
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. -- Benjamin Tucker
Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well. -- Donald Trump
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible. -- Jay Carney
I don't consider myself an offensive guy. I am just a harmless lovable little fuzzball. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. -- Grimes
Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL. -- Matthew Stafford
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. -- Judy Blume
What makes the Gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out, but who it lets in. -- Rachel Held Evans
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? -- Jessamyn West
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. -- Jonathan Swift
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. -- Alan Brien
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. -- John Oliver
Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. -- Trent Reznor
I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa. -- Marco Rubio
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. -- Theodore Parker
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. -- Juvenal
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back. -- Bobby Orr

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