Quotes by Offending don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way. Fanny Burney offending sarcasm thinking Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852 Florence Nightingale offending hurt long I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world. Gemma Galgani offending giving blood Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness. Geneva Overholser offending editors thinking I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody. George Lopez offending comedy say-anything The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. Giovannino Guareschi offending writing men Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way. Gordon B. Hinckley offending goes-on men As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down." Gracie Allen offending men people Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Grover Cleveland offending political people Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. Grover Cleveland offending government people If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law. Harlan F. Stone offending rights law The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences. Herbert M. Shelton offending healthy principles My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. Horatio Nelson offending kings country [French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. Horace Walpole delicacy offending ambitious May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil. James E. Faust offending devil worry I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character? Jane Austen offending pride character There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough. Jane Austen offending men hands There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating. Jean de la Bruyere speaking-well offending land It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it. Jello Biafra offending religious kids I don't see myself as offending people. Jimmy Carr offending people «1234»