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Quotes About Guts

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
~ Veronica Roth
One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.
~ Anthony Burgess
We become brave by doing brave acts.
~ Aristotle
But I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by light rain of guts and flayed skin.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Salim,' She said, as if he were in the room. 'I'll have your guts for garters.' I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this.
~ Siobhan Dowd
Jimmy: They all want to escape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all,love. It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul- you'd better give up the whok idea of life, and because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world or the next.
~ John Osborne
We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
~ Sebastian Thrun
I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.
~ Burt Ward
Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.
~ Bobby Knight
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Q: What's the definition of bravery? A: A man with diarrhea, chancing a fart.
~ Scott McNeely
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
~ Arthur Golden
Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde
~ Arthur Koestler
Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones.
~ Stanley Bing
You see, you make it so terrible for us," she said. "For the women. Because normal men want to be like you, they learn about you from movie versions of you, and they try for that same laconic spirit, that Hemingway stoicism. They manufacture themselves in your image but they don't have the guts or the power to bring it off. So they just exile themselves from us, pretending to be you and to have your power, and we can never reach them.
~ Stephen Hunter
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
~ Jimmy Connors
Bravery will come from your heart
~ Erin Hunter
Conservatives understand that politics simply reflect underlying values. That's why they are passionate. They don't vote their pocketbooks. They vote their guts, and their guts tell them that leftism is immoral on the most basic level.
~ Ben Shapiro
If you remove the bloody floorboards and water-stained tiles; if you destroy the beams that held Robert Carterhook's body, and you tear down the walls that absorbed the screams, do you take down the house? Can it be haunted if the actual guts - its internal organs - have been removed? Or does the nastiness linger in the air?
~ Gillian Flynn
Whatever you do in life, do it with courage
~ Gregory David Roberts
Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
~ Magic Johnson
Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.
~ Eddie the Eagle