Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense.
– Gretchen Rubin
Related Quotes:
- Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape… – AbdulRauf Hashmi
- It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. – TE Lawrence
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Nothing,’ wrote Tolstoy, ‘can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. – Gretchen Rubin
- I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger. – Gretchen Rubin
- I’d always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations. – Gretchen Rubin
- Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act. – Gretchen Rubin
- Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
- What’s fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa. – Gretchen Rubin
- If you carry offense in your heart, it is too early for you to start your team – Sunday Adelaja
- Peace doesn’t mean never offending anyone. Peace means never taking offense from anyone. – Aaron Dennis
- He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. – Barbara W Tuchman
- In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise. – Anonymous
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- People who start a sentence with personally (and they’re always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It’s a repulsive habit. – Georgette Heyer
- Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it. – Barbara Sher
- To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
- [W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start – Frank Jackson
- A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows – Mati Klarwein
- Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL. – Daisy Whitney
- A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures… – J Buchanan
- I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. – Alan Rickman
- Women are not on this planet exclusively to inspire men and make them happy. We have our own dreams and needs, our own shit to get done. – Gretchen McNeil
- She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny. – Gretchen McNeil
- Well, put it this way–I don’t want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again. – Gretchen de la O
- Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer. – Gretchen Preston
- His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen. Every time, I’ll choose you. – Anne Blankman
- Josie, like Gretchen, isn’t afraid of blood. What woman would be? – Chelsea Cain
- Someone tells me I’ve been touched by Jesus, I remember.--œNot Jesus,- he said in all seriousness. -œThe hand of God. – Gretchen McNeil
- She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. – Harper Lee
- A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense. – Mark Twain
- This is not suitable for me-- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say -˜will not suit’ is an offense. – Dada Bhagwan
- The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can’t be co-opted by either moralism or relativism. – Timothy J Keller
- Calling for an end to hate shouldn’t be treated as a punishable offense. – DaShanne Stokes
- The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. – Raymond Carver
- I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense. – Jennifer Egan