Quotes About Stalemate

The generals, British, French and German, were unable to achieve a breakthrough because the defences were always too strong and the facilities available to reduce them were not fully developed, either technically or tactically.

Duelo) No Continuo, sino Inmóvil

But the Russians have oriental patience. They waited a decade for political recognition and they will wait a century to achieve the ultimate aim. A stalemate for a decade does not matter, for the machinery is always at work, always plodding on. They are convinced that their final victory is inevitable. The Russian people knew that all invasions from Napoleon to Hitler had come from the West.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

War settles nothing.

Heroic origin stories and polemical counterstories may give us momentary emotional satisfaction by inviting us to despise cartoonish renderings of our perceived rivals and enemies. The price we all pay, though, is tunnel vision, mutual recrimination, and stalemate. For the sake not just of the science but of all the suffering people whom the science should be serving, it is time for us all to learn and to tell better, more honest stories.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Having voted in ways that ensure gridlock, Americans point to that very gridlock and despair that any good can come from Washington.

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

The generals were now two years into this war and it should have been - and indeed was - glaringly apparent that the methods being employed to attack the enemy lines, be they British, French or German, were simply not working. Increasing the scale of the attack by the current methods simply increased the number of casualties

Ä°nsan bir yerde tak?l?p kald?kça, nesneler ve insanlar iyice yozla??yorlar, çürüyorlar ve s?rf sizin hat?r?n?za leÅŸ gibi kokmaya baÅŸl?yorlar.

there is no bargaining with a man who won't talk.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.