Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Billy Connolly

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Noam Chomsky

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Joyce Meyer

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Tucker Max

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

Marco Rubio

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

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.

Mike Scully

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

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Billy Graham

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

Alice Walker

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

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.

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.

Rick Friesen

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

Grover Cleveland

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.