Quotes About Backfired

#1. No, I tried to use Lissie. But apparently you're more pigheaded than I gave you credit for. I thought for sure that would do it. Instead, it backfired on me, and you agreed to go to the dance with ... someone else.

Kimberly Derting

#2. Raven stared up at his face, drinking in the strong lines and the way he looked at her with something close to adoration. She smiled at him. "I think you've managed to put some kind of spell on me."
"If I did," he whispered, "it backfired, and I managed to ensnare myself as well.

Christine Feehan

#3. I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

James Stockdale

#4. The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her.

Trevor Noah

#5. If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

Jack Dee

#6. Good friendships are like breakfast. You think you're too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired.

Shauna Niequist

#7. We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

Scott Capurro

#8. [the car] backfired a lot. Loud enough that when I drove in the wrong part of town and it let loose with a gas fart, people actually ducked for cover.

Adrienne Wilder

#9. My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.

Edward Abbey

#10. And I love that all their overdone liberal bullshit totally backfired," he said. "Of course it did. People are assholes. End of story."
"The world according to Sebastian Tate."
"It's a philosophy that has gotten me far in life.

Kate Scelsa

#11. I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Shia Labeouf

#12. Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

Billy Graham

#13. I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Jonathan Krohn

#14. I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't expect to be so emotional, but I asked for it really. I'ma glutton for punishment.

Sophie Anderton

#15. The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

Lela Rose

#16. Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Kevin Rose

#17. Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

C. A. Bartol

#18. How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia."
"And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

Jessica Day George

#19. It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

Piet Mondrian

#20. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

Jen Lancaster

#21. The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#22. God didn't bring us together. Our jobs brought us together. That's not divine intervention, that's just life.

Tiffany Quay Tyson

#23. If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

Darin Strauss