Offense Quotes

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.

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.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

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.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

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

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

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.

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

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

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.

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

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

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