Arena Quotes

• The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Voice, Feet

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Horse, People, Use

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• I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

  Bill Mumy

  Different, Lucky, Favorites Things

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

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• I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

  Lucinda Williams

  Night, Play, One Night

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• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  Randall Terry

  Law, America, Church

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• QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

  Scott D. Cook

  Dream, Succeed, Revolution

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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• We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

  Anna Lindh

  Political, Reform, Needs

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• They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Crazy, Problem

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• 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

  New York, Believe, Long

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• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Order, United States

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

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Competition, Adam

  "Viggo Mortensen Fights Nude In 'Eastern Promises' — But Could He Take Borat?". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 12, 2007.

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• We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Humanness Is, People, Political

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• Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

  Dave Grohl

  Going Away, Capacity

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

  C. Wright Mills

  Respect, Shadow, Cash

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  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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• 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

  Thinking, Claims, Persons

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• The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

  Peter Garrett

  People, Political, Intention

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

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• Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• 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

  War, Stupid, Enemy

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• It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Sports, Exercise, Risk

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• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  Carre Otis

  Anorexia, Demand, Disease

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• I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

  Tiger Woods

  Love, Passion, Golf

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• 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

  Issues, Environmental, Links

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• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  Camryn Manheim

  People, Political, Different

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