Quotes About Stalemate

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Where do we go from here?"-Kiera"We go nowhere."-Denny

By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say.

A siege is a deadly dull.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won't work and you can't fire it.

When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

This shit between them was killing them both, but they were stalled out. Unable to make things work; unable to let things go. It was a mess.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?

Congress is balking; in fact, they have got to the point where they won't do anything if they think it's what I want.

Are we just going to stand here all night quoting each other?" Conor asked. "I mean, not that the material is bad, but I was kind of hoping we could get beyond that.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.