Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We're investigating whether its appropriate for the offenders that are under our watch to live there.

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.

We didn't want our system so stuffed with nonviolent offenders that we were paroling violent offenders. What makes sense is to use those resources for your most violent offenders.

Mickey Rooney

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

Trevor Moore

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Basically, anything goes, as long as it's not obscene, doesn't offend or present a safety hazard.

Obviously, the tactics offended some people and he quit doing it after that.

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

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.

Suzanne Vega

He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,

If we get repeat offenders or something, we could park somebody.

Claire McCaskill

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

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.

Mike Scully

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

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

We have some women travel with us sometimes. We don't want to offend anyone.

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.

Alice Walker

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

John Bartlett

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

Joseph Addison

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Louise Penny

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

They might, even though it may not be legal, be able to effectively keep everyone out. It's a sophisticated way to keep sex offenders out of the city.

Chris Hardwick

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

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.

Grover Cleveland

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

A warrant was issued for Robert Durst today after witnesses saw the offender in Galveston on Dec. 16. By being there, Durst violated the terms of his supervision that restrict his schedule and travel.

Jenji Kohan

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.

Dick Durbin

I offer my apologies to those that were offended by my words.

James E. Faust

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

George Herbert

None is offended but by himselfe.