“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-"
"Say we move on," I broke in.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“In the turbulent art arena they all pitch in and do their dubious and mercantile part in the rocambolesque saga of the art since so many judge art with their ears and the sound of the money. (“When is art?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When you take a person out of the world, you don't just take them, do you? You take everything they were, too.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“BLOODY LIPS

The bloody wound
Of the gladiator
Gurgles out life's end.

The cries of acclimations from the stands
Fill the sky with raging tigers.

Waving their arms about to incite the masses
The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena.
Making their separate entries
they
K
N
E
E
L
over the still-warm corpses
Of the young. Their withered lips they pose
Upon the fresh flowing wounds
And, to prolong their lives – so they believe,
Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood.

Fresh blood from the sun
Flowing into filthy veins
As into sewage pipes,

And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned.”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

“Grito, pero nadie me escucha. Estoy cansada de luchar. Mi alma esta cansada, esta ahogada en un llanto que no parece ver el final. Tengo tantas ilusiones hechas trizas, tantos sueños enterrados en la arena de mis mejores dias contigo y mis peores pesadillas a tu lado.”
― Dulce María

“We were in chaos and world were watching us while we were killing each other like gladiators in arena.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“dan pada bait yang di tunggangi agitasi ini, sesungguhnya rindu sudah berujung pada maut, dalam arena adu mata seorang pemuda yang masih sendiri”
― andra dobing

“Sentensi bora katika medani ya uandishi ni sentensi fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Sentensi ni mkusanyiko wa maneno unaoanza na herufi kubwa na kuisha na alama ya kushangaa, kuuliza, au nukta. Sentensi bora ni fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“She owes me nothing, and her truth is her own. To bury or not.”
― Lauren Loscig, War Hour

“You need vision to transform political arena”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The rewards are far better IN the arena than in the stands.”
― Richie Norton

“In a creative activity such as architecture, metaphor is less a threat to objective truth and more (to use another architectural metaphor) an arena of conceptual vitality – an arena being a performance area shareable with others.”
― Simon Unwin, Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture