Gutting Quotes

#1. Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

Barack Obama

#2. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

David Baldacci

#3. Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

Marco Rubio

#4. That is a language for ordering
the slaughter and gutting of hogs, for
counting stacks of cans. Groceries
are all you are good for. Leave
the soul to us. Eat shit.

Margaret Atwood

#5. The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

Oliver North

#6. And you didn't get children to trust you by gutting teenagers right in front of them, not even mean, ugly teenagers. That wasn't the way to make new friends.

Brom

#7. I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Mark Ruffalo

#8. Oh come now. It's no fun if you don't know why I'm gutting you when I'm gutting you. Think!

Kelly Creagh

#9. You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.

Alan Moore

#10. At our core, we are not made to be extensions of machines, or to find our personal validity in four decades of gutting it out just so we can sit on a beach for a few years before we die. In short, we are made to Make Meaning, not just money.

Chuck Blakeman

#11. You know, I was gutting this loser the other day, and I thought, It'd be more fun fighting that little dhampir. I wonder if she's recovered yet. And here you are."
"Lucky me," I said.
Scarface grinned. "You know, I might even let you live. You're funny.

Karen Chance

#12. The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,

Andre Carson

#13. The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Claudia Rankine

#14. God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.

Criss Jami

#15. If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#17. A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

Pema Chodron

#18. You have a choice !
Deal with life's problems !
or life will deal with you.

Lou Silluzio

#19. Surely I could give him
a sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Dodie Smith

#20. What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

Gary Gutting

#21. People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

David Duchovny

#22. The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

Cheryl Strayed

#23. Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

Gary Gutting

#24. The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.

Iyanla Vanzant

#25. I'm supposed to quote myself? Seriously? I know I'm a clever wench, but modesty muffles my ego.

K.Z. Snow

#26. The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.

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