Bend Over Backwards Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Dolly Parton

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

John Steinbeck

#8. I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

John Malkovich

#9. Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.

Louise Erdrich

#10. Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

Andruw Jones

#11. You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either!
I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!

Sophie Kinsella

#12. In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [ ... ]
Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.

Andrew Murray

#13. I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

Orson Scott Card

#14. A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Joseph Addison

#15. How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Will Tuttle

#16. 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

#17. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

Barry Lyga