Quotes About Stalemate

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

When you think about it it's like brexit. There are going to be two years of talks before we even agree on what the issues are.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

For two hundred and fifty years the kzinti had not attacked human space. They had nothing to attack with. For two hundred and fifty years men had not attacked the kzinti worlds; and no kzin could understand it. Men confused them terribly.

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

Given the advantages of fighting on the defensive in its own territory with interior lines in which stalemate would be victory against a foe who must invade, conquer, occupy, and destroy the capacity to resist, the odds faced by the South were not formidable.

Storm is getting nowhere." "She might be putting some of them to sleep." "Uh-oh, Schmerkel is screaming again.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. but now I know I'm dead I tell you

At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

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.

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

No one knew how to end it. The war had settled into unbearable, unwinnable battles. It had reached a point where there were no more victories, only death.

The argument has never been resolved and maybe it never will be.