Offense Quotes - Page 9

• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

  David Eddings

  Mother, Dog, Past

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• Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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• The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

  Martin Luther

  Tumult

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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• The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

  Bob Marley

  Sin

  Song: Jah Live

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Grandmother, Eyebrows, People

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

  Harper Lee

  Desire, Stronger, Wells

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.165, Random House

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• You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." -Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Sandals, Said

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• if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

  Meg Cabot

  Ifs, Offended

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• She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

  Portia de Rossi

  Insults You, Giving, Insulting

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

  Meg Cabot

  Waiting, Brain, Bullets

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.201, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

  Kristin Cashore

  Comfort, Bears, Similarity

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.450, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let your subtext show. That is the point of acting, is to be saying one thing and not be allowed by society or your predicament to show what you're really feeling. In a way, I think that's why the therapy generation has killed script writing, because all you ever get is people going, "Hi, I'm feeling really angry right now."

  Olivia Williams

  Drama, Writing, School

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

  Thomas Hardy

  Truth Is, Concealed, Ifs

  Thomas Hardy (1920). “The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse”

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• Is she okay? I mean, no offense, she sounds more mental than I do.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Sound, Okay

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• It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I’ll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Gun, Climbing

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• I don’t know. There are times when I get the feeling he can’t tell me from Nynia. I think he loves her more than me. (Sunshine) No offense, but that’s stupid. You and Talon are soulmates. He will always love you no matter who or what you are. You, my friend, could come back as a humpback whale and he would love you. He can’t help it. The two of you are destined for each other. (Psyche)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soulmate, Stupid, Love You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Night Embrace”, p.237, Hachette UK

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• On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Moving, Men

  Jack London (2000). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.80, Modern Library

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• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Love Is, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Pain, Past

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• Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

  Bob Ney

  Sex, Children, Justice

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• Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Hair, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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