Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Alice Walker

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Rick Friesen

We research that, and if we didn't run it we think we'd be offending those viewers.

Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Mike Scully

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

Billy Graham

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

William Shakespeare

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Cindy Gallop

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.