Offense Quotes - Page 11

• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Strong, Stupid

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• 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

  Country, Law, Arizona

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• 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

  Mean, Angel, Police

  Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

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• If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tree, Body, Decorating

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• Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

  Sydney Smith

  Faults, Ifs

  "A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith". Volume I,

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• I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

  Charles Schumer

  Regret, War, Believe

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• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

  Doubt, Atheism, Would Be

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• 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

  Sports, Winning, Knights

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Boys, Competition

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• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Enemy

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• We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Night, Coaching

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• And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eggs, Broken, Trying

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.93, Penguin

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• There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

  Dan Brown

  Ignorance, Moments, Inferno

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• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Mean, People

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

  Gena Showalter

  Insult, Please, Ifs

  Gena Showalter (2009). “Seduce the Darkness”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Niece, Taken

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• Disappointment mixed with bitter acceptance flashed in her eyes. "Maybe you are real," she said. "It would require a dark side I don't have to create someone like you." "You forgot to say 'no offense' before making that statement." "No, I didn't. I meant offense." Bold little human, wasn't she? -Annabelle and Zacharel

  Gena Showalter

  Disappointment, Real, Eye

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• We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

  Linder Sterling

  Vision, Needs, Asking

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• Do passing drills that come from your offense.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Passing

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• Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Guy, Demigods

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• A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

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• What are these guys?" He whispered "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?" "Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada." "Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Annabeth, Canada

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