Guts Quotes - Page 29

• If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Special, Trials

  "Calif. Gov not sorry for 'girlie men' remark". www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in. She believes she is the best at whatever she does and proceeds through life with that knowledge. She can face any hazard that life throws her way and stay with it until she wins. She is loyal to her kinsmen and accepting of others. She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Strong, Believe, Mean

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him. "You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he said. "You're starting to get delicate." "How would you like to have me gut you?" she offered. "That's my girl.

  David Eddings

  Girl, Too Much, Starting

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• yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Wine, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

  Franny Billingsley

  Father, Silence, Twists

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.15, Penguin

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• And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Trying, Wonder, Ifs

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Sorry, Play

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• Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Giving, Brain

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.150, Bantam

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• This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.

  Maureen Johnson

  School, Aunt, People

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• No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

  Zadie Smith

  Suicide, Beach, Ocean

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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

  Rick Riordan

  Scared

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• we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.

  Temple Grandin

  Mean, House, Done

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• Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  Bleeding, Rooms, Ruins

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• What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other

  Lisa Kleypas

  Doe

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.267, St. Martin's Press

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• What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Expanding Universe, Light

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• I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Play, Strings, Name Of The Wind

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• 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

  Clouds, Secret, Care

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.149, HQN Books

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• She’s been hanging out with Nick.” – Acheron “Nick? As in I-hate-your-guts-Ash-go-die Nick?” – Tory

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Ashes, Hanging Out

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• This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Lying, Heartache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Sorry, Party, Thousand

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.

  John Green

  Cutting, Boys, Blue

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.160, Penguin UK

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• and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.

  Annie Proulx

  Distance, Hands, Opposites

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 Angel Ruiz

  Lying, Heart, Play

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