Top 1200 Offense And Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place, and I can't read "In Defense of the Semicolon" without thinking of Toronto - but why should that matter to anyone else? If another reader imagines "In Defense of the Semicolon" taking place in New Orleans, great.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

As long as we are all incorporated within offense and everybody's eating, we're good.

I have to be better maybe on the weak side of the offense, on closeouts.

You're never trying to have three-and-outs; I don't care what offense you're playing.

At the three, you can kind of float around. At the four, it's not as much freedom on offense.

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .38 special, is created for self-defense should look a little more closely at his own image in the mirror. Either he is a liar or is deceiving himself.

We fought in court against President Bill Clinton's taking money to pay his legal bills through a legal-defense fund. During the George W. Bush administration, we questioned the propriety of his father, President George H.W. Bush, working for Carlyle Group, an investment company that was, in effect, a major defense contractor.

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

It's difficult when you step out there with somebody like me and my offense.

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

My role is to be a defensive player, and that's what I try to do. Whatever offense comes to me is a plus.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much in the forefront of the American consciousness and the world consciousness today. Police misconduct was at the heart of the defense and Johnny Cochran did a masterful job at putting that defense at the forefront of the jury's conscience as opposed to the double homicide of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Brown Simpson].

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.

The most important thing is to build local capacity, meaning train local forces, build the local defense institutions, defense ministries, command and control, because, in the long run, it is expected that local forces are stabilizing their own country, fighting terrorism themselves, instead of NATO deploying a large number of combat troops in combat operations.

I try to play within the flow of the team's offense.

The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

It's an offensive league. All the rules cater to the offense.

It's a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

In Atlanta, we ran a motion offense, so, obviously, I was on the move a lot.