Arena Quotes - Page 3

• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Heart, Religion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Done, Comedy

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• I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, League

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Men, Attention

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• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  Mary Oliver

  Conscious, Walks, Unconscious

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• 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

  Play, Police, Doe

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• I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, World, Morality

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

  Julie Andrews

  Singing, Broadway, Tough

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• I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

  Whitney Houston

  Crazy, Play, People

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• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Alternatives, Politics

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Politics, Morality, Interest

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• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Zero, Book

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• I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

  Whitney Houston

  People, Done, Want

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• Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Positive, Sexy, Different Faces

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• The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

  Stockwell Day

  Political, Mindset, Court

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• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  Francesca Annis

  Work, Home, Views

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Art, Player, Perfect

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Humanity, Causes

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• 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

  Sports, Party, Home

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

  Suzanne Collins

  Teacher, School, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

  Niall Horan

  Artist, Albums, World

  "One Direction: Everything You Need To Know From A To Zayn" By Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood......Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

  Pat Sajak

  Views, Interesting, World

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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