Quotes About Arena

#1. Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

Charlie Brooker

#2. A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

Ross Perot Jr.

#3. The real trouble with Wikipedia lies exactly where its strength lies: its democratic impulse. In an arena where everyone's version of the facts is equally valid, and the opinions of specialists become marginalized, corporate and politicized interests are potentially empowered.

Michael Harris

#4. In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

Tobias Lindholm

#5. My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

Barry Commoner

#6. When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

Gary LeVox

#7. Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Victor Davis Hanson

#8. We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Tony Campolo

#9. The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

Nancy Pearcey

#10. The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Bear Grylls

#11. We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

Sherwood Anderson

#12. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Mark Lanegan

#13. The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

Zadie Smith

#14. The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.

David Foster Wallace

#15. You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

Dan Auerbach

#16. Beginning in 1962 ... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.

Rick Scarborough

#17. Within the space of a few shows you can hear the band morph between their various identities as savvy arena rockers, intense starship pilots, vaudeville nostalgists, modest American folkies, boundary-dissolving improvisers, roots-conscious spiritualists, and mind-fucking pranksters.

Richard Gehr

#18. One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Gudjon Bergmann

#19. Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination ... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.

Herbert Wind

#20. Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

John Davidson

#21. Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

Chris Matakas

#22. It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.

J.K. Rowling

#23. We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone ... doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

John Guillebaud

#24. The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

Mary Kom

#25. I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Nikki Haley

#26. I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Boz Scaggs

#27. You're not leaving me here alone, I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

Suzanne Collins

#28. No, Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'
Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

Suzanne Collins

#29. It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Kennedy

#30. I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

Yolanda Adams

#31. If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

Mary Karr

#32. You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-"
"Say we move on," I broke in.

Suzanne Collins

#33. America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#34. He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers ...

Roddy Piper

#35. Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

Suzanne Collins

#36. Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Hillary Clinton

#37. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too.
Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask.
Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee.
Well ... not really, I think.

Suzanne Collins

#38. It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Steven Pressfield

#39. O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Walt Whitman

#40. I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

Viggo Mortensen

#41. A canvas is an arena in which to act.

Jackson Pollock

#42. For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.

Dwyane Wade

#43. That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

Vin Weber

#44. The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances.

S. Bradley Stoner

#45. I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Charlie Kaufman

#46. Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Robert Bork

#47. Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena ... long before the lights come up.

Muhammad Ali

#48. You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

Sondre Lerche

#49. Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

Brene Brown

#50. I want the audience to recognize you when you're in the arena," says Cinna dreamily. "Katniss, the girl who was on fire.

Suzanne Collins

#51. Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

Carly Fiorina

#52. Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

Jay Sekulow

#53. I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

Michael Cohl

#54. (For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.)

Peter Kreeft

#55. Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'

Hideo Kojima

#56. The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

#57. I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Sting

#58. He saw that it wasn't just a circus, but an arena, just like everywhere.

Henry Miller

#59. I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

#60. Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Audre Lorde

#61. So the bed that had been the arena of their passion became the support of her illness.

John Williams

#62. The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer.

Paul Billheimer

#63. The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

Seneca The Younger

#64. Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate.

Kate Atkinson

#65. God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

K. Howard Joslin

#66. At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Harold Rosenberg

#67. I've come this come all this way and suddenly I'm back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.

Victoria Aveyard

#68. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Philip Yancey

#69. I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Aneurin Bevan

#70. Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

Duncan Hunter

#71. I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

Johnny Vegas

#72. I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

Timothy Dalton

#73. Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

Steven Furtick

#74. America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach

#75. It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.

Studs Terkel

#76. I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Wilford Brimley

#77. I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

George Pataki

#78. A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Nelson Mandela

#79. Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#80. The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

Paul Mooney

#81. It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.

Busta Rhymes

#82. It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

Erik Spoelstra

#83. Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

#84. Understanding your sweet spot can increase your satisfaction in every arena of your life, but it goes even further than that. Evidence suggests that sweet spots can have life-or-death consequences.

Susan Cain

#85. I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

Mark McGrath

#86. The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.

Adam Schlesinger

#87. Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Jim Hightower

#88. Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

#89. An arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.

Bernard Cornwell

#90. What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

Pleasant Rowland

#91. I am Queen of Joya d'Arena and bearer of a living Godstone. I kneel to no one. - Elisa

Rae Carson

#92. I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.

Todd Rundgren

#93. The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

John Elway

#94. In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Andy Summers

#95. The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Aimee Mullins

#96. The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

Isaac Marion

#97. I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.

David Benioff

#98. Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

Bruce L. Shelley

#99. Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Andy Stanley

#100. Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.

Jim Brown