Quotes About Impasse

Dac? nu exista solu?ie, atunci nu exista nici problem?.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

A difficulty for every solution.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

if only she hadn't agreed to wear the pink pajamas there in the Mercer Hotel. Because once I saw her in them, I loved her in the same way I love my sister, which is an impasse of the truly impassable sort. ????

Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.

Language The clichéd image of an alien emerging from a flying saucer and declaring 'Take me to your leader' highlights one problem in alien narratives. As soon as aliens speak, their otherness becomes compromised, because we associate language with a way of life and view it as one of the defining characteristics of humanity. One way out of this impasse in early SF was to use the convenience of an instant translation device.

Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.

sometimes there just isn't any cure for a situation.

He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall.

He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted

Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff." ... Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments. "Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

impasse implies that we're evenly matched. But we all know that's not true.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.