#offense

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. ↗

— John Barton

#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

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

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time. ↗

— Mel Carnahan

#cracking #crime #crimes #down #laws

I look at Syracuse and I love the way that the coaches say they'll use me in their offense. I really like the family atmosphere there and I feel really comfortable there. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#coaches #comfortable #family #feel #i

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#clear #go #iraq #leadership #needed

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#basically #believe #close #come #decade

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law. ↗

— John Shadegg

#come #commits #crime #current #current law