Offended Quotes - Page 14

• Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

  Tamora Pierce

  Parent, Sound, Half

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• Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true — why, then you get offended because you can’t remember the first part. All you know is that you’ve been called a liar.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, Liars, Believe

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• I assure you he died screaming like a girl. (Daimon) Oh, I am so offended by that. What is the deal with that sexist statement? I’m a female and I don’t scream. But I’ve killed many a male Daimon who did. (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Males, Female

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.163, Macmillan

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• God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Offended You, Names

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• My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

  Camryn Manheim

  Parent, Weight, Fit

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• Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Waste, Negative

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• I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing.

  Creed Bratton

  Rain, Men, Knowing

  "The Office: Gay Witch Hunt". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".

  John Flavel

  Christian, Dark, Israel

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• I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

  Judith Jamison

  Native American, African American, Gone

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

  Carsten Juste

  Apology, Cartoon, Facts

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• You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  War, Redneck, Church

  CMT Awards, 2007.

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• Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

  Blake Shelton

  Artist, Grandpa, Want

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• It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f___ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f___ing show… f___ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Guy, Glee

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• We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

  Brit Hume

  Feelings, Literature, Victim

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• MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

  Janet Jackson

  Nfl, Mtv, Apologizing

  "Apologetic Jackson says 'costume reveal' went awry". www.cnn.com. February 3, 2004.

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• Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Sorry, Pride

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

  Sterling W Sill

  Perfection, Criticism, Courses

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Humble, Praying

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

  Jerome Corsi

  Apology, Offended You, Apologizing

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• Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Vanity, Blood

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• No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Love You, Men

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.92, Wild Jot Press

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• He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Kings, War

  Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, founders.archives.gov. June 11 – July 4, 1776.

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• Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Witty

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• I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

  Gerard Majella

  Giving, Suffering, Might

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