Arena Quotes - Page 14

• There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

  Crixus

  Standing, Greater Things, Greater

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• ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Hopeless, Quarrels

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.

  Robert Byrd

  Mistake, Ku Klux Klan, Political

  "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.

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• 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

  Destiny, Numbers, Letters

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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

  Pleasant Rowland

  Inspirational, Want, Talent

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• Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

  Bill Bright

  Country, Father, Government

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• 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

  Government, Century, Transportation

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• There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Form, Conversation

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• Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.

  Skylar Grey

  Real, California, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Fighting, Ideas

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• Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Christian, Hate, Vanity

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• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Confused

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• 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

  Christian, Thinking, Issues

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• 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

  Thinking, America, Doe

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• 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

  Mean, Boxers, Fighter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  Sade Adu

  Play, Want, Height

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• I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

  Jeff Garcia

  Football, Blessed, Careers

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• If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

  Joe Elliott

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Hair

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  Patrick Carney

  Mistake, Rocks, Band

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• Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

  Ehud Barak

  Real, War, Believe

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• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Writing, Successful, Intelligent

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• We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

  Alastair Campbell

  Sports, Football, Fans

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Talking, Violence, Kind

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• It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Knives, Forever, Kevlar

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