Offensive Quotes - Page 5

• They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch. 
  (on Arsenal)

  Frank Lampard

  Team, Damage, England

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• Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

  George Tenet

  War, College, Information

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• The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Careers, Long

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• Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Cells, People, Scare

  "Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers". "The View" with Roseann O'Donnell, newsbusters.org. May 1, 2007.

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• I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Believe, Fire, Towers

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• We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Majority, Minorities

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• I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Hate, Video, Labels

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• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  Peter Pace

  Leadership, Battle, Surrender

  "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.

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• Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

  Max Anders

  Government, People, Judging

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• I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

  Adam Brody

  Interesting, Taste, Controversial

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  Jack Youngblood

  Linemen, Lineman, Offensive Lineman

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• Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

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• It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

  Homer

  Guests, Hospitality, Speed

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  Barry Sanders

  Rays, Lineman, Brady

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• Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Military, People, Enemy

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• Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

  William O. Douglas

  Winning, Expression, Community

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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• There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Struggle, Writing

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.82, Univ of California Press

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• To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

  Timothy Keller

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

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• We will not build our offensive game plans around our punter... We hope we don’t major in punting.

  Rex Ryan

  Games, Punters, Punting

  Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.

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• Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Class, Three, Hats

  'Hats' in 'Shouts and Murmurs' (1963) No nice men are good at getting taxis. In 'Observer' 1977

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Japan, Break Through

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Community

  "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.

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• I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  People, Usual, Explosions

  "Turkey’s Many Occupational Hazards" by Ozan Varol, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2014.

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• Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Motherhood, People, Feminist

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