Offensiveness Quotes & Sayings

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. — Bette Midler

It seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him. — Charles Bukowski

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry. — Sydney J. Harris

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness. — Mason Cooley

This world has need of song and sword. — Patricia Briggs

Sometimes I get drunk and I get into arguments with taxi drivers. And I get out the cab and I slam the door. That's not the way to win an argument with a taxi driver. The way to win is you get out of the cab and you leave the door open. And then he has to step out and come around and close that door. And while he's doing that, I'm on the other side opening the other doors-and we just go around and around and around, and I got my own Benny Hill situation going on in life. — Hannibal Buress

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. — David Letterman

I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's not real, because it's forgiven. It's like having a little kid in a movie curse - it's funny because it's not natural. — Mila Kunis

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. — Swami Vivekananda

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. — Rebecca West

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,
and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

A plaque at the door congratulated her for climbing 1,860 individual stairs, and she nodded as she caught her breath. "Just my luck," she gasped. "I'm going to have the best glutes left in the planet, and there nobody here to see them. — Dan Wells

To me, it's worth getting offended by someone if it means I can trust that every word is their true opinion. — Sarah Glidden

Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood. — Bram Stoker

If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C.S. Lewis