Top 144 Offending Quotes & Sayings

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

There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

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

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

No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.

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

Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

I'm not interested in offending anyone. If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable.

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

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.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

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.

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.

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.

You can't always worry about offending people.

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

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

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

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

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

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.

Offending someone's religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no 'but' qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

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."

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending - and the likelihood of them becoming a victim of crime.

We don't like offending anyone.

I don't see myself as offending people.

If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.

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

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

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

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

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

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

I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.

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