#offense

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. ↗

— Robert Burton

#bitter #friends #offenses #old #old friends

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#respect #respect

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forgiveness #god #into #kisses #like

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. ↗

— George Whitefield

#gives #hearer #himself #makes #neither

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem. ↗

— John Avlon

#hitler #offense #only #part #party

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#decency #doing #giving #injury #justice

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will. ↗

— Doug Collins

#because #become #better #care #coach

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#capable #carry #feelings #following #free

The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses. ↗

— Robert Luskin

#appropriate #charge #completed #criminal #decision