Offense Quotes - Page 10

• God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

  Joyce Meyer

  Prayer, Lines, Firsts

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• 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

  Decisions We Make, Feelings, Quality

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• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grieving, Past, Punishment

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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• I want to have and adopt. I always have, ever since I was 18 I wanted a baby and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

  Queen Latifah

  Baby, Mean, Kids

  "Queen Latifah says she wants to adopt". Interview with Ellen Degeneres, www.rte.ie. February 13, 2007.

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• Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

  Hayden Fry

  Nice, Army, Nfl

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• It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

  Brett Favre

  Fun, Thinking

  "AP Interview: Favre indicates he'll play in '04". www.espn.com. November 7, 2003.

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• He who pardons easily invites offense.

  Pierre Corneille

  Pardon, Invites

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene ii, 1641.

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• He who forgives readily only invites offense.

  Pierre Corneille

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Invites

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Cinna, IV. 4, 1922.

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• Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

  Robert Burton

  Friendship, Old Friends, Enemy

  Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

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• An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

  Robert Benchley

  Teamwork, Games, Preparation

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  James Belushi

  Real, House, Intellectual

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Literature, Taste

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Found, Resignation, Courses

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• Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Pythagorean Theorem

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• I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

  Rick Perry

  Oklahoma, Texas, California

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• Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Games, Giving, Half

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• I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.

  David Biespiel

  Home, Thinking, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, Body, Defenseless

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.50, RosettaBooks

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• No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Horse, Kissing

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• And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Cutting, Gentleman

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• I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Virtue, Knows, Rejecting

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• What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

  William Shakespeare

  Rivers, Trout, Peculiar

  William Shakespeare, Nicolaus Delius (1859). “Shakspere's Werke”

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