(4013 quotes found)
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.”
Clarence Darrow
“Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.”
Dante Hall
“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.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Since every record surely contains something offensive to someone, sticker them all. Make this as meaningless as the bar code.”
Michael Stipe
“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.”
William Orville Douglas
“I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.”
Kirsty Gallacher
“The White Sox (early 60s) are rightly called the 'Hitless Wonders' -- their idea of offense is a walk, an error and a hurricane.”
Joe Garagiola
“How much more can you ask of your offense? This was even more than we could have pictured. Arkansas always played such aggressive pass defense, we didn't think it would happen like this.”
Pete Carroll
“I don't know if it was our offense or the flu.”
Ron Gardenhire
