Top 22 Backfires Quotes
#1. Be proactive; and ready to run if proactive backfires.
Jesse Petersen
#2. I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
Todd Barry
#3. Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.
Chad Pennington
#4. Fear kills. Protecting yourself backfires eventually. And living in fear of pain isn't really living at all.
Patricia Gaffney
#5. For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#8. Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.
Alice Hoffman
#9. Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
Rob Zombie
#10. It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Katey Sagal
#11. I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
Jay McInerney
#12. I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A.R. Rahman
#13. How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.
David Letterman
#14. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.
Ruth Ozeki
#15. Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
Bill Cosby
#16. I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires ...
Nicole Holofcener
#17. Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close contriuer of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
William Shakespeare
#18. They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.
Thomas Malory
#19. Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
Marty Rubin
#20. God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
Origen
#21. I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
Adora Svitak
#22. And I always have this feeling,
which may not be true at all,
that I am being used as a messenger.
I think I'm receiving,
and so,
I think I'm retransmitting!
Jose N. Harris
