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“If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.”

Ifs Age Sex Race Issues Serious Police Drivers Officers Tickets Traffic Offense Police Officer

Author:Bill Dedman

“A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.”

Ifs Giving Mean Done Certain Pleasure Please Female Thirds Memoir Volume Offense Undertakings Female Writers

Author:Laetitia Pilkington

“I like Louis Vuitton accessories, but I'd never wear their clothes. No offense, it's just not my steeze.”

Clothes Offense Accessories Louis Vuitton

Author:Kid Cudi

“As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.”

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.”

Courses Travel Bunch Over You Offense Goats

Author:Roald Dahl

“It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'”

“O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.”

Heaven Smell Offense

Author:Claudius

“God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?”

Children Doe Has Beens Soul Father Christ Justice Lord Judging Criminals Punishment Offense Unjust Redeemed Avenging

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Even last year I was watching the Celtics and I could see the offense was disheveled.”

Years Lasts Last Year Offense

Author:Kenny Anderson

“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.”

Ifs Should War States Peace Cities Support Limits Creating Weapons Claims Murder Killing Refuse Protection Traffic Offense Anarchist Hazards Pacifist Misdemeanors

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.”

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Author:Allen Iverson

“There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.”

Ifs Real States Feelings America Hate Poor Stupid Criminals Nationalism Offense Mafia County Fraternity Immediate Family

Author:Ian Svenonius

“The best defense is a good offense.”

Defense Offense Offense And Defense

Author:Jack Dempsey

“The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.”

Feels Sides Lines Sin Focus Grace Fine Sorrow Solutions Guilty Staying Repentance Offense Godly True Nature Fine Lines Corinthians

Author:Jerry Bridges

“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”

Moments House Given Majority Representatives Offense Impeachment House Of Representatives

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.”

Ifs Heart Grief Bears Heavy Denial Offense Forgiven

Author:Glenda Green

“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”

Giving Art Offense Diplomacy

Author:Winston Churchill

“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”

People Laughing Defense Offense

Author:Robin Williams

“Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.”

Men Feels Heart Feelings Language Degrees Hatred Revenge Insult Offense Crude Exaggerated Insulted Hatred And Revenge

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.”

Giving Country Seems Offense Polite Reserved Plausible Scotch Hearty Spaniards

Book:Miscellaneous writings

Source: Miscellaneous writings

“When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.”

Knows Light Term Consequence Advantage Plant Sake Defense Offense Power Plants

Author:Edward Snowden

“The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.”

Community Becoming Internet Activity Built Concerned Defense Priorities Command Manage Experts Agency Offense Nsa Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.”

People Offense Courtesy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.”

“[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”

Men Sound Democracy Crime Prove Argument Offense Prove It

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.”

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Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone.”

Love Turns Gone Cry Late Too Late Offense One Love Pardon Sour

Book:All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.”

Thinking Way Want Kind Ethical Offense Ambivalence

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.”

Helping Reality Speak Crime Abuse Favors Offense Egotism Angling

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.”

Men World Stills Age Jesus Christ Moral Christianity Changed Needed Crosses Defeat Deny Rejection Endeavor Rejected Offense Scorn Fitting Power Of God Moral Courage High Places

Author:Lord Kelvin

“Affection exaggerates its own offenses.”

Affection Offense

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.”

Firsts Able Lasts Winning Saws Team Balls Good Things Glad Ran Tonight Offense

Author:Bill Parcells

“In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.”

Long Remembered Speakers Listeners Offense Complaints Forgiven Spouse

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

Men Wells Whole Speak Sex Women Religious Heard Youth Mines Taught Touched Thank God Offense Uncles Lectures Courtship Giddy

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.”

Firsts Looks Father House Silence Position Ready Mets Pure Twenties Sensitive Dependent Contempt Offense Distrust Unbearable Condemnation Filthy Chaste Debauchery

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Moving Comedy My Friends Tolerance Comedian Confused Offense Shocked

Author:Demetri Martin

“Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.”

Want Defense Offense

Author:Charles Tillman

“Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.”

Heart Hope Ambition Offense Verdict

Author:Tanith Lee

“Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.”

Knows Battle Picks Revenge Offense Aspire Ladders

Author:Linda Hirshman

“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”

Men Book Law Political Chance Cases Democracy Crime He Man Findings Fairs Filled Committed Discovering Offense Pins Violation Prosecutor Investigators Law Books

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.”

People Ifs Persons Done Helping Differences Hurt Talking Havens Angry Excuse Offense Forgiven Testimony Holding On

Author:Joyce Meyer

“To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.”

Thinking Position Battle Flow Determined Just Being Offensive Offense

Author:Moses Malone

“Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.”

People Ifs Film Watches Horror Offense Scratches Horror Film

Author:Bryan Fuller

“People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.”

People Needs Mother Father Successful Mom Argument My Mom Being Successful Offense Mothers Day Being A Father

Author:Dwight Howard

“...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.”

Two Play Might Three Games Left Gone Easier Looking Back Offense Retrospect Analyzing

Author:Dennis Franchione

“No offense to the other people that we work with, but we spend 14-hour days with each other. You're dying for some sort of new rhythm to play with and another person to have fun with. It's like, "Oh, I can't wait to hang out with Zoe Lister Jones today and not deal with that Jake Johnson."”

People Persons I Can Play Today Fun Waiting Hours Deals Dying Rhythm Having Fun Hanging Out Offense Johnson Jake

Author:Max Greenfield

“If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.”

Ifs Knows Christian Leadership Church Sin Do You Know Thrones Offense Repent Pardon

Author:Johnny Hunt

“It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.”

Ifs World Pride Offense Offended Severity Harshness

Author:Hugh Blair

“Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.”

Persons Arms Authority Gun Deny Defense Offense Gun Control

Author:John Adams