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Quotes About Stalemate

There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
~ Robert Frost
Congress is dysfunctional.
~ Bob Filner
The snaplight hit the beast square in the face. And did nothing
~ John August
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
~ John Kennedy Toole
which she makes no move to clean up, I'm not sure what
~ John Waters
And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.
~ Unknown
I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.
~ Jose Mourinho
In the political and theological realms we are still stuck on the merry-go-round of church and state, capitalism and communism, Christian or Jew, Catholic or Protestant. We seem incapable of envisioning anything other than the dualistic and tired stalemate of contemporary patriarchal polity...
~ Unknown
No national emergency, no solution, no offer, no progress. Trump was, for the entire nation to see, trapped.
~ Michael Wolff
Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct." —Old military proverb
~ Michael Z. Williamson
A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without
~ Moisés Naím
A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.
~ Moisés Naím
La política siempre ha sido el arte del compromiso, pero ahora parece haberse convertido en el arte de impedir que se logren acuerdos.
~ Moisés Naím
Un mundo en el cual todos tienen el poder suficiente para impedir las iniciativas de los demás, pero en el que nadie tiene poder para imponer una línea de actuación, es un mundo donde las decisiones no se toman, se toman demasiado tarde o se diluyen hasta resultar ineficaces.
~ Moisés Naím
If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Instead, the state marched over us.
~ Nelson Mandela
They sat opposite each other, like enemies at truce.
~ Nicola Griffith
Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates
~ Norman Rush
Martín Luis Guzmán contará que se creó un impasse, que el grupito de hombres a caballo con la fila de tiradores ante ellos ni se iba ni se retiraba. Se miraban y se apuntaban, observaban a sus mutuos jefes. Hasta en la tragedia hay espacio para el absurdo.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Herc watches the door. Occasionally, it watches him back. They can spend hours before one of them breaks down.
~ Unknown
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
~ Peter Drucker