Quotes and Sayings About Offensive
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
-- Adam Brody -
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
-- Adolf Galland -
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
-- Al Franken -
Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.
-- Ann Coulter -
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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 -
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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.
-- Bhakti Tirtha Swami -
The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
-- Bill Walton -
The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.
-- Billy Graham -
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Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.
-- Blaine Nye -
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
-- Bobby Orr -
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
-- Christian MarclaySource : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
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I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.
-- Christopher Meloni -
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Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.
-- Courteney CoxSource : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
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I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.
-- Courteney Cox -
The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.
-- Craig Groeschel -
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
-- Dave NavarroSource : "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.
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Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
-- David Harsanyi -
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
-- Francis KilvertSource : W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870
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Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
-- Fred Durst -
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.
-- Gardiner SpringSource : Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
-- George Eliot -
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We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.
-- Greg Koukl -
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.
-- Henri Nouwen