Offense Quotes

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

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

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

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

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

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

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.