Arena Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arena Imaginary Pits Politics Rats Records
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena. — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You're in the very center of that arena, and you're playing to the worst seat in the… — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked. — Bobby Lashley Copy Share Image
Wrestling, at its core, is all about fan and audience participation and fan interaction live in that Arena. Live in that bingo hall, live… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
“Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature,— in the way that Chess represents war,—… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena! — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival,… — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were… — Tony Palermo Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to surface that… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in… — David M. Shoup Copy Share Image
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image