“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”

— Steven Pressfield

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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United States Marine 1943

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"Big Yellow Taxi"
Songs

“Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin (1973), cowritten with Peter Tosh.
Song lyrics
Source: Bob Marley - Legend

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“[F]orgive me if this sounds pompous, but it’s better to die standing up than live on your knees.”

Alexey Navalny (1976) Russian anti-corruption activist

Source: As quoted in "Net Impact: One man's cyber-crusade against Russian corruption" http://archive.is/FGqQE (4 April 2011), by Julia Ioffe, The New Yorker

“Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you’re in a bag and you can’t get out and somebody’s always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

“It's going to get worse in our country and we better start fighting a lot tougher than we're fighting right now.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2015-07-16

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2010s, 2015

“Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise,
And put up a parking lot.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"Big Yellow Taxi"
Songs

“Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”

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