Offense Quotes - Page 2

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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

To take offense is to give offense.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

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

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

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

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Too much apology doubles the offense.