Quotes About Guts

#1. I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Melina Marchetta

#2. But he should have known that on top of hating his guts, I was also a virgin.

L.J. Shen

#3. The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

Ed Koch

#4. Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Stanley Kubrick

#5. Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.

Thomas Pynchon

#6. With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

Carrie Brownstein

#7. Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

Diane Kruger

#8. A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.

Lindsey Graham

#9. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.

Ashleigh Z.

#10. To understand the truth of everything,
it took guts more than simply thinking.

Toba Beta

#11. Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

Brandy Norwood

#12. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

Lynne Reid Banks

#13. Every single person wants to do it, don't hate me because I had the guts to follow my heart!

Zach Braff

#14. Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.

Jim C. Hines

#15. meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.

Tess Gerritsen

#16. I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

Raymond Chandler

#17. There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

Peter Chernin

#18. I read the books the day before I had met with (director) Catherine Hardwicke. The first I heard of it was my agent called and said, 'Do you want to be in a vampire movie?' and I said 'No.' I thought it was like a zombie, blood-and-guts, vampire movie.

Peter Facinelli

#19. The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.

Gus Hall

#20. Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.
So do you have the guts?

Deyth Banger

#21. The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.

Mark Bouris

#22. I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

Gordon Pask

#23. Driving is so dangerous I haven't got the guts to do it sober.

Joseph Hansen

#24. The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic.

Michael Crichton

#25. A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Rita Ora

#26. Even when she looked scared, she had a lot of guts.

Rick Riordan

#27. You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.

Rajneesh

#28. It just goes to show you that knowing things is highly insufficient--having the guts to back up what you know is what changes the course of a human being's future. (call, Nov. 10, 2014)

Laura Schlessinger

#29. Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

R.S. Thomas

#30. Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

Sean Combs

#31. Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

Tanc Sade

#32. Go with your gut, but use your head.

Lauren Conrad

#33. The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Sam Nunn

#34. I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

Dan Rather

#35. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Colin Powell

#36. I am hurting. The tears don't come anymore. They don't have the guts to anymore. I know that if I fail at that, it will mean the death of me.

Abigail George

#37. The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is ... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Masashi Kishimoto

#38. To begin, this thing he calls "homoeomeria" - take bones: you see, they're made of little bones, 835 wee, tiny ones; and from wee, tiny guts, guts are created; and blood comes into being when lots of little drops of blood foregather.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#39. Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

#40. I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

Arthur Lydiard

#41. I pray for bravery and guts, for honesty and discernment. I know you have a lot to lose - we all do when we lay down our certainties and our black-and-white thinking.

Sarah Bessey

#42. No guts, no glory.

Laurence Yep

#43. she was only here because she didn't have the guts to be anywhere else. Because she felt like the last guest at an unsuccessful party, too guilt-ridden to leave.

Lisa Jewell

#44. There's no substitute for guts.

Paul Bryant

#45. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer

Sol Stein

#46. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.

Pearl Zhu

#47. Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

Miguel Ruiz

#48. Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

Alan Sillitoe

#49. But there are some words that when overheard will always twist a person's guts sideways.

Heather Hildenbrand

#50. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#51. Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

B.B. King

#52. The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Cory Doctorow

#53. I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.

Gena Showalter

#54. I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Wayne Coyne

#55. I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

Benicio Del Toro

#56. A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.

Hilary Mantel

#57. We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.

Walter Schloss

#58. I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

Jeff Zucker

#59. Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

John C. Bogle

#60. Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Richard Yates

#61. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

#62. It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

Venus Williams

#63. I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

Ashton Kutcher

#64. Some people have more guts than brains.

John Grisham

#65. Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy of all. The ones you have to fight for.

L. H. Cosway

#66. I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch

Nicki Minaj

#67. When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

Manal Al-Sharif

#68. Few things come to shake us up and few things pass to teach us how to let go then many things come and remind us what it's all about. It's life and the only person who will control how you feel about all the guts and glory in its path is you.

Nikki Rowe

#69. I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

E.B. White

#70. The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know.

Geraldine Brooks

#71. Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Jessamyn West

#72. [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Caitlin Thomas

#73. I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

#74. The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden

#75. He blew himself up."
"Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?"
"Not all over the place," I said. "He was pretty well contained, all things considered.

Janet Evanovich

#76. You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!'
'You've known some weird girls, then, I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#77. I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

Tana French

#78. Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do ... No guts no glory

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#79. If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

Marc Blucas

#80. You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.

Buddy Rich

#81. A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

Bertolt Brecht

#82. We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

John Lennon

#83. Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Lee Iacocca

#84. AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Larry Kramer

#85. Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

Joe Kapp

#86. You can't coach guts and commitment.

Heyneke Meyer

#87. Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.

Andrew Smith

#88. The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.

Rob Thurman

#89. Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out.
Granted, I had tried to steal her Tiara of Clairvoyance.

Zen Cho

#90. My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

Mario Vazquez

#91. He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that someone was trying to destroy you, to suck out your guts, insanity was a goodly metaphysics.

Jaimy Gordon

#92. You always do this to people?"
"Do what?"
"Get them to empty their guts out just like that."
"We do not have much time. We should only talk about what is important.

Francisco X Stork

#93. the oil-producing countries hate our guts and would like to

Catherine Coulter

#94. You're Clary Fray. You go charging into every situation without knowing how the hell it's going to turn out, and then you get through it on sheer guts and craziness.

Cassandra Clare

#95. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#96. The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head. Anyone can acquire the know-how for analyzing stocks.

Peter Lynch

#97. I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.

Gregory David Roberts

#98. Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

Arthur Miller

#99. I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Nicholas D'Agosto

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

Kevin Rose