Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

Suzanne Vega

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

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

Alexander McCall Smith

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

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.

Claire McCaskill

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

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 Graham

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

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

Alice Walker

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

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.

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

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 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.

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.

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

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

I want to know if there's a sex offender skulking around my kid's school.

Dick Durbin

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

John Locke

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender

Ralph Peters

The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

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.

Phyllis Diller

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

Randall Robinson

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

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.

Richard Armour

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Jenji Kohan

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