Gladiatorial Arena Quotes & Sayings

We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs ... After a while everything you do is just wonderful ... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you. — Milton Resnick

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices. — Steven Magee

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill! — Max Frisch

The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that this is from God. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude. — Bob Burg

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity. — Gautama Buddha

Harriet: Is it fun being married?
Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know. — Louise Fitzhugh

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena. — Josephine Hart

I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena. — Chris Carmack

Let them express their anger and hatred; listen to them and smile. — M.F. Moonzajer

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives. — Woodrow Wilson

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive. — Roberto Clemente

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you're currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace. — Steven Furtick