Bend Backwards Quotes

#1. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

Paula McLain

#2. Blue was filled with frustration that her life was so clearly demarcated.
Things that were not enough, but that she could have.
Things that were something more, that she couldn't.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

Richard Dawkins

#4. you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.

Anne Tyler

#5. In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.

Richard Lewontin

#6. Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.

Francine Rivers

#7. I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Dolly Parton

#8. I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#9. No worries, I won't force you to marry me. I'll get over you. There are plenty of fish in the sea and all that jazz. - Elora

Quinn Loftis

#10. I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.

Erich Maria Remarque

#11. I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

Corey Dillon

#12. I want to create a lifestyle niche for that cool girl who's really into fashion but not too obsessed with it.

Erin Wasson

#13. Most Western journalists in China prefer a Chinese-free international language, and thus bend over backwards to replace important Chinese terms with Western vocabularies.

Thorsten J. Pattberg